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| From | Michael Stewart <michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Need help with working with multiple files |
| Date | Mon, 27 May 2013 15:19:41 -0400 |
Hi I am trying to find a way to work multiple files successively. I have multiple large files(really large) placed in different directories I am trying to find a way to load each file into stata, complete bunch of same datamagement tasks,create a new file from it and places them in a common folder I could use a dofile and do something like clear use c\data\dataset-1 datamagement tasks datamagement tasks datamagement tasks save c\data\dataset-1_new clear use c\data\newdata\dataset-2 datamagement tasks datamagement tasks datamagement tasks save c\data\newdata\dataset-2_new clear But is there an elegant and simpler way to do it given that I have nearly 15 files to do data management tasks. Can we use foreach loop / forvalues loop or anything like that .Please suggest -- Thank you , Yours Sincerely, Mike. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/