Re: st: reading a value from a file into a scalar

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 16:24 06/06/02 +0100, I wrote:

> Chris's best solution probably involves the -file- command, which can read 
> values from a file directly into a scalar. Type -help file-, which should 
> give you the answer if your version of Stata 7 dates from mid-2000 or 
> later. (-file- is not necessarily found in Stata 7 manuals, as the first 
> sub-version of Stata 7 didn't contain it.)
Sorry, "mid-2000" here should have been "mid-2001". There was, of course, 
no Stata 7 in mid-2000.

Roger


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