Statalist,
I am trying to access a series of files using the values of a variable in
another dataset to as an index of the names of the files. This is easy to
do with –levelsof-, except that the macro is truncated at a very small
number of characters (244?).
Here is what I’d like to do:
clear
insheet using sp_components.csv
keep v1
levelsof(v1), local(namelist)
foreach name of local namelist {
clear
local filepath = "c:/mydata/"`name'"
insheet using "`filepath'"
...
}
Since I need to clear memory each time, there is no easy workaround that I
can see using -forvalues-
I can't help but think that -levelsof- wouldn't bother to generate the nice
long list that it does if there weren't some way to use it. Am I missing
something?
Thanks.
Dan
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