I'm trying to cheat and speed things up a bit when dealing with a
bunch of files with names such as fileYYYYMMDD.dta. I could collect
the numeric part of the names in a column vector that starts with the
initial values a=J({potential number of files}, 1,0). But there is a
fair chance that my YYYYMMDD succession has gaps, so at the end of the
process this column vector will have some zeroes.
I would like to do this:
mata
a=sort(a,1)
Then drop all the zero elements of a, and end up with a shorter
vector. But I can't find anything like "drop rows" in the Mata book or
Google. Any ideas?
Generally, some R-like way to deal with arrays would be nice to have
in Mata or Stata.
Thank you,
Gabi
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