st: Re: reading arbitrary text files

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Friday, October 18, 2002 2:33 -0400 Roger wrote:

> It therefore seems to be impossible to input an arbitrary text file into
> a  list of generated string variables.
Take a nlook at Nick WInter's new -log2do2-. I don't know if the 
methodology employed therein meets all your concerns, but he does say

The use
of {cmd:file} allows {cmd:log2do2} to preserve references to local macros 
in command lines.
The if the following line appears in a log file:

{p 8 8}{inp:. display "local x is `x'"}

{p}then the reference to {cmd:`x'} will appear in the do file as {cmd:`x'}, 
rather than
being expanded by Stata and, therefore, blanked out.

Kit
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