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st: RE: QUestion using -fs- package
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: RE: QUestion using -fs- package
Date
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:16:09 +0200
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Say -gen file="`f'"- then. A numeric var cannot have the dot in ".dta" in
it, nor any other characters...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nuno Soares
Sent: Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010 22:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: QUestion using -fs- package
Hi everyone,
I'm using the -fs- command to look into a directory for several files, open
them, insert a new variable with the file name, and save them. The code is
the following:
qui fs *.dta
foreach f in `r(files)' {
use `f', clear
cap drop file
gen file=`f'
save, replace
}
However, when I run the code I get the following error code:
wscopear: operator invalid
r(198);
Basically the gen file=`f' command is returning the above error. Any way of
doing what it is intended to do?
All the best,
Nuno
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