Dear Statalisters--
Is there an easy way to capture information of an input file into a local
macro, so it can be saved as a note with Stata data set?
I am looking for information similar to that stored in c(filename) and
c(filedate) for a Stata dataset in memory,
For example, I can issue within Stata the command:
. dir "../rawdata/TNOutcomesqrypedsi.txt"
This will display on the screen
785.9k 12/03/03 13:24 TNOutcomesQryPedsI.txt
I would like to save this information in a local macro, such as `inputinfo'
. insheet using "../4Petra/TNOutcomesqrypedsi.txt", names
(I thought that an macro extended function, with -display-, might do the
trick, but I couldn't get this to work.)
Thanks for your help,
--Estie Hudes
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Estie Sid Hudes, PhD, MPH
Specialist/Statistician
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies &
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
74 New Montgomery St., Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94105
phone: 415/597-9126
fax: 415/597-9194
email: [email protected]
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