My texteditor has a feature "search in directory" which searches for a phrase in a whole bunch of do-files. That works like a breeze...
On the second question, I would say that if you bump up against the upper limit for lines, then you are either making your do-files more complicated than they need to be or you are a very professional Stata programmer. Whatever the case, I think you can nest do-files, i.e. they can call other do-files, which would allow you to circumvent the size limitation...
HTH
Martin
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Man Jia
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st:tips to manage multiple do files?
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could share any tips of managing many do
files for one research project. Thanks for your help!
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(1) How to make it easy to find some specific work in several do files?
Now I have to open most of them to see if the file has the part I'm
looking for. The thing is, it is kind of hard to remember clearly the
content of each file after even two or three days not working with
them. I tried to write outline in the beginning of each file, but I
have to open each of them to get the outline.
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(2) detailed comments in do files
For me it's useful to have detailed comments to explain what I'm
doing in most parts in a do file. Those details include what the
commands are doing, anything I should be careful with in future,
sources I get the ideas, why the alternative ways are not good, summary
of the results..... But a do file has limitation of number of lines in
it. So, Writing a lot of comments means I have to create many do files.
So, is there any good habit to deal with this? Is it better that in do
files just add concise comments and take notes in other files?
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Thanks for your time! I really appreciate it.
Mandy
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