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st: Re: help with inputst


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: help with inputst
Date   Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:56 -0800 (PST)

Dear all,

I have several data files in text format that I want
to convert into Stata datasets using stat/transfer.

I created a macro containing the text data file names
and try to use -foreach- and -inputst- to read the
data but it keeps giving me errors. It appears that
stat/transfer can not understand the local macro.

Here is my code:

clear
local files MRecord-I-080907 MRecord-I-013107
MRecord-I-020807 MRecord-I-021507 MRecord-I-030807
MRecord-I-031507 

foreach fname in `files' {
        inputst "C:\statawrk\MAPMISS\`fname'.txt"
	save `fname'.dta, replace
}

. qui {
Stat/Transfer did not run successfully
file not found
r(601);

end of do-file

Thank you,
Ricardo

Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK



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