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Re: st: Searching for files with a particular *value* of a variable


From   Partho Sarkar <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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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