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| From | Partho Sarkar <partho.ss+lists@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Searching for files with a particular *value* of a variable |
| Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:53:58 +0530 |
Many thanks, Nick! This will get me started.
Partho
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can approach this in various ways. I haven't used either of the
> user-written programs you mentioned but let's just approach it from
> first principles:
>
> local present
> quietly foreach f in <filelist> {
> use `f'
> count if <varname> == <value>
> if r(N) local present `present' `f''
> }
>
> di `present'
>
> You'd need something subtle if your filenames contain spaces.
>
> Nick
>
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