Way to make a command work for the whole Do-file

[Yu Wang]

Hi,

Is there a way to make a command work for the whole Do-file?

For example,

I want to run these four (even more) regressions and use outreg2 to report tables with numbers of only 3 digits.

///////////////// Main /////////////////
//OLS
reg rnd L1.rnd gap_e gap_r L1.growth crisis_08 crisis_09
outreg2 using rndreg.xls, replace ctitle(OLS 1) ///
bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)

reg rnd L1.rnd gap_e gap_r crisis_08 crisis_09
outreg2 using rndreg.xls, append ctitle(OLS 2) ///
bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)


//FE
xtreg rnd L1.rnd gap_e gap_r L1.growth crisis_08 crisis_09,fe
outreg2 using rndreg.xls, append ctitle(FE 1) ///
bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)

xtreg rnd L1.rnd gap_e gap_r crisis_08 crisis_09,fe
outreg2 using rndreg.xls, append ctitle(FE 2) ///
bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)

It is very tedious to set

bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)

for each regression.

Thus how can I type

bdec(3) sdec(3) tdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)

only once in a Do-file?

Thanks very much for any advice!

[daniel klein]

local outreg2_opts bdec(3) sdec(3) pdec(3) cdec(3) rdec(3)
...
outreg2 ... , `outreg2_opts'

Best
Daniel