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st: use tempfile
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"Lythgoe, Dan" <[email protected]> 
To 
 
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> 
Subject 
 
st: use tempfile 
Date 
 
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:24:53 +0000 
Dear Statalist,
Apologies in advance for such a simple question but I am struggling with this one. I want to -use- a temporary file stored using -tempfile- if an argument is true(/false), but am clearly missing something as I can't seem to get STATA to -use- the temporary file:
/*===begin===*/
local arg "yes"
preserve
tempfile tempresults
	gen X = 1
save "`tempresults'"
if "`arg'" == "no" {
	restore, preserve
}
else {
	use `tempresults', clear
}
/*===end===*/
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Dan Lythgoe
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