st: Re: help with inputst

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

I think your -local- statement should read

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

or alternatively

#delim ;
local files "MRecord-I-080907 MRecord-I-013107 MRecord-I-020807
MRecord-I-021507 MRecord-I-030807 MRecord-I-031507";
#delim cr

I hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn't.

Roger


Roger Newson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Ricardo
Ovaldia
Sent: 20 December 2007 17:51
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Re: help with inputst

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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