Hi,

I am trying to set a condition within a nested loop. Now, the loop opens some folders; the condition is that if a folder has less than 50 files, than the iteration of the loop should be run. If it has more than 50 files, the iteration should be skipped. I tried to use -if- -else- and -continue- but I am doing something wrong: when a folder has >50 files, the loop is exited with no error produced.
It is the first time I find myself having to use -if- this way, apologies if the question is trivial.

Code:
clear
local com_list `"`r(folders)'"'
local years 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
foreach c of local com_list{
foreach y of local years{
        clear
        cap n cd "C:/bilanci_unzip/`c'/csv/`c'/`y'"
        fs *
*if elements of `r(files)' are >50, skip append loop
local count_values_num: word count `com_list'
di "Number of numeric values: `count_values_num'"

if `count_values_num'<50 {
foreach f in `r(files)'{
            append using `"`f'"'
            *this is for having all the right info in labels3
            replace labels3 = labels2 if labels3==""
            }   //close 'files' loop
    *save one file for each comune
    cd "C:/bilanci_unzip/`c'/csv/`c'/"
    save "`c'_`y'", replace
        }
else{
    continue
    }
}  //close 'year' loop
}  //close 'comune' loop
log close
Thank you