With one variable, that's easy enough: count if missing(variable-name). If you have several variables, you can put them in a foreach loop. But if you have to do this for arbitrary lists of variables in several files, it may be interesting to package that foreach loop inside a quick command that might handle special display [...]

I was looking for an excuse to try something new and I decided to pick on one Notepad++ shortcoming that was handy: the Stata syntax highlighting gets utterly mangled after compound quotes -- `"`like so'"' -- which do sometimes arise, usually in the process of file open/file write.  Vim does not get confused by compound quotes [...]

The other day I wrote a program that needed to call a file as an argument -- with the full file path. My first pass at it was to capture the argument as usual, with say args input_file. But that would not have worked with file paths that have spaces in them. What might have [...]