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st: storing elapsed time in a variable


From   "Schonlau, Matthias" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: storing elapsed time in a variable
Date   Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:29:52 -0800

Dear Stata listers : 

I would like to know how much time a portion of my code takes to run. The only way I can think of is using 

set rmsg on   
or 
c(current_time) before and after the section of the program.

That gives me the time - but it is not automated. I have many different input parameters for this section of the program it would be time consuming to write all times down by hand.

Is there a way of  storing elapsed time in a variable? 

I tried it without success:  the following fails somewhere in the first two lines: 

				local timestring c(current_time)
				tokenize `timestring', parse(":")
				di "`1'*`2'*`3' "
				local hour1 = real(`1')
				local minute1 = real(`2')
				local second1 = real(`3')
				
Thanks ,

Matt 





Matthias Schonlau
Statistician, RAND 
http://www.rand.org/methodology/stat/members/matt/

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