How to export contents of table to latex and exclude \begin{tabular} and \begin{table}?

[John Williamss]

I usually hide some columns depending on the presentation. For example, I put the inner content of a table in a separate file in latex like "file.tex"

A& B\\
C&D

and then, depending on the presentation, I might use

\begin{table}[] \begin{tabular}{cH} \input{file.tex} \end{tabular} \end{table}

the problem with esttab and estout is that they always export the outer part as well, i.e.

\begin{table}[cc]
\begin{tabular}{}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Is there a way to tell them not to do that?

[William Lisowski]

Read in the output of

help esttab##format

look for the fragment option; I think that does what you want.