Programming features

• Sophisticated parsing
• Looping and branching
• Markup and control language
• Access to internal system variables
• Binary and text file I/O
• JDBC support New
• ODBC/SQL support
• Access to files on the Internet
• List processing
• Path and file utilities
• Extensive set of functions for string and data manipulation, including regular expressions and Unicode
• Window management
• Automation

Object-oriented programming

• Inheritance
• Encapsulation of data structures and programs
• Program-name overloading

Programming utilities for...

• Debugging programs
• Measuring convergence
• Marking relevant sample
• Storing results
• Handling time-series variables
• Confirming variable types
• Controlling display formats
• Parsing factor variables

Menu language

• Add items to existing menus
• Add new menus
• Create dialog interfaces

Long string/BLOB support

• Up to 2,000,000,00-character long strings
• Binary "string" (BLOBs)
• Import entire files into BLOBs/long strings
• Export files from BLOBs/long strings

Unicode support

• UTF-8
• Translation of extended ASCII to UTF-8
• Unicode-aware string functions
• Locale-based sorting and string comparison

Project Manager

• Handle dozens or hundreds of scripts at once
• Portable project file/collections for working on multiple computers or sharing with colleagues

Numerics by Stata

• Create applications with the power of Stata inside them; see the Numerics by Stata page for more information.