Extracting file names with dir and storing them into a local

[Dusan Petrovic]

Dear statalisters,

I would like to extract all the sub directory names present in the parent directory and store these names into a local.

I've been seeking for advice on forums and found the following command that I tried to adapt

local f_names: dir "C:/A/Parent/" files "*" // as these are directories and not *.txt or *.dta

display "`f_names'"

*However nothing is returned

But nothing goes out

The purpose would be to use all the elements from `f_names' and then extract the names of text files within each file of f_names directories. I'm planning to do something like

foreach fn of local f_names{
   local txt_files: dir "C:/A/Parent/`fn'" files "*.txt"
}

Thank you for your kind help

Dusan

(Stata 14.1)

[Dusan Petrovic]

 local f_names: dir "C:/A/Parent/" dirs "*"  // dirs instead of files for directories.

Didn't see it immediately in the help

[Jesse Wursten]

For some reason the related help file is called "help extended_fcn". That said, I'm not sure why your code doesn't work. Or does it work now you replaced files with dirs?

[Dusan Petrovic]

Hi Jesse, it works now!
Thanks
Dusan