Thanks Austin. That worked like a charm.
Sometimes I just want a cleaner log file to look at - the timestamp,
etc. is not always useful to me.
Martin thanks for mentioning estout. I will look into it.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> erase loop_test1.log
> sysuse auto, clear
> forvalues i = 1/10 {
> set more off
> qui regress mpg weight
> cap log using loop_test1.log, append
> di `i' " log - " e(r2)
> cap log close
> }
> type loop_test1.log
>
> but what's the purpose of this?
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:16 PM, William Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Running this:
>> ----------
>> sysuse auto, clear
>>
>> forvalues i = 1/10 {
>> set more off
>>
>> regress mpg weight
>>
>> log using loop_test1.log, append
>> di `i' " log - " e(r2)
>> log close
>>
>> }
>> ----------
>>
>> I get this:
>>
>> ---------
>> log: C:\data\loop_test1.log
>> log type: text
>> opened on: 21 Jun 2008, 09:10:19
>> 1 log - .65153125
>> log: C:\data\loop_test1.log
>> log type: text
>> closed on: 21 Jun 2008, 09:10:19
>> --------
>>
>> What I want is only the line that says:
>> "1 log - .65153125"
>>
>> I'm sure this very simple but I haven't spotted how to turn-off the
>> rest of the data.
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