st: Re: RE: RE: Calling a Do-file

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

do-files can take arguments. See -help do-

HTH
Martin
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> I think what I'm asking is can you point me in the direction of  documents 
> describing how to write a function in Stata with arguments  (where the 
> function is a do-file).
>
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> >
> > Is there a way to run a do-file (ie secondary do-file) from inside
> > another do-file (ie primary do-file) and change a variable inside the
> > secondary do-file?
> > For example,
> > replace j=1
> > do "C:\xyz.do"
> > replace j=2
> > do "C:\xyz.do"
>
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