I don't think you made a mistake. I guess it's a bug or something. It only
happens for a slash right before a local macro. Perhaps only Stata staff can
find out the reason since outfile is a built-in command. It will save to the
right directory if you try either
out `var's using "d:\stata\export\add`var's.asc"
* add something between slash and macro
or
out `var's using "d:\stata\export\\`var's.asc"
* add another slash
Zhiqiang
Menzies School of Health Research
Darwin Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Muller" <[email protected]>
To: "Statalist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:51 PM
Subject: st: local macros & saving in directory
> I coded:
>
> ----
> version 7
> local var "somevar"
>
> ... code in terms of `var'
>
> out `var's using "d:\stata\export\`var's.asc", runtogether replace
> ----
>
> However, the file is saved in dir <d:\stata> under the name
> <export`var's.asc>, not as I expected in dir <d:\stata\export> as
> <somevars.asc>.
>
> Where is my mistake? Why does Stata strip off the slash before `var'?
>
> Many thanks in advance, best wishes,
> Daniel
>
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