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Re: st: Acessing files in dir


From   Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Acessing files in dir
Date   Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:50:22 -0500

You can use Nick Cox's -fs- to get a list of file names returned in r(files).

Scott

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Tiago Dias<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, everybody. This is my first question to Statalist, so please excuse me if I commit a mistake.
>
> I have a directory with a few hundreds files, all in .dta. I need to -use- each one of them and make the same modification. If I modify one by one, I have a big chance of missing one of them or modifying twice a single file.
> I thought about using -dir- to get the filelist and -foreach- to have stata browsing, using, modifying and saving each file on filepath, but I don't know how to access the filenames in -dir-.
> Anyone has a idea?
>

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