st: New package -renfiles- available on SSC

[Lars Ängquist <lars.angquist@telia.com>]

Dear Statalist.

Many thanks to of Kit Baum who recently (2011-07-28) made the -renfiles- 
package available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this directly, or go somewhat more indirectly through usage of 
the -findit- command.

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Brief abstract:

The -renfiles- package allows for a convenient way to change filenames for 
(a matched subset of) files in a directory of choice. The achieved 
generality is governed by the options that implements e.g. the choice of a 
folder to look in, a filename matching criterion to apply within this 
folder, the sign/substring to replace and the corresponding sign/substring 
to replace occurrences within matched filenames with. Typical use could e.g. 
be to put several files into a specific form, to remove certain (special or 
simply unwanted) characters from filenames, remove empty spaces from 
filenames, etc. Both in/out forms are case-sensitive. An additional option 
allows for choosing whether or not the files corresponding to the old 
versions of the matched filenames should be kept or erased. All options are 
optional and corresponding defaults exists.

With best wishes & regards  /  Lars Ängquist




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