You can use wildcards " * ".
type
help fs
there you find an example:
fs *.dta
Regards,
Johannes
[email protected] schrieb am 08/09/2008 08:45:40:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem, I want to run a loop on all the dta
> files in a directory, I currently have the following code, but am
> having difficulties because I get an error when a do file is included
> in the r(files) macro. Is there anyway I can run this only on .dta
> files? My code is as following...
>
> log using jfilesearch, replace
> fs
> foreach var in `r(files)' {
> clear
> use `var'
> capture, describe *gdp*
> }
> log close
>
> Regards,
> Nikhil
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