st: Re: too many files for dirlist

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

-dirlist- is an older user-written ado file.  But you don't need it to get a 
list of file names.  See -help extended_fcn- and look at the dir function. 
Here's an example for retrieving a list of all Stata dta files in the current 
directory:

local fnames: dir . files "*.dta"

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Eduardo Hernandez Castillo" <cehc84@hotmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: st: too many files for dirlist



> Dear statalist community:
>
> I have been using dirlist but it seems it has a maximum number of characters 
> to retrieve in the return macros. For example, in a directory that contains 
> the following files:
>
> 13areas.dta 7areas.dta Barranquilla.dta Bogota.dta Bucaramanga.dta Cali.dta 
> Cartagena.dta Cucuta.dta Ibague.dta Manizales.dta Medellin.dta Monteria.dta 
> NalECH.dta NalENH.dta OcupadosNacional.dta Pasto.dta Pereira.dta 
> Proporciones.dta TotalesNacional.dta
>
> "display r(fnames)" would retrieve:
>
> 13areas.dta 7areas.dta Barranquilla.dta Bogota.dta Bucaramanga.dta Cali.dta 
> Cartagena.dta Cucuta.dta Ibague.dta Manizales.dta Medellin.dta Monteria.dta 
> NalECH.dta NalENH.dta OcupadosNacional.dta Pasto.dta Pereira.dta 
> Proporciones.dta TotalesNacional
>
> I have been looking for an alternative to get the names of all the files but I 
> have not been able to do so, do you have any idea? I am using Stata 9.2. 
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Carlos Eduardo Hern�ndez Castillo
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