Re: st: Re: quotation marks in do files

[Chris Ruebeck <ruebeckc@lafayette.edu>]

The problem is probably that Word likes to replace "straight quotes" 
with "smart quotes".  This can be turned off in preferences.  Although 
the fact that you save the file as plain text would seem to contradict 
my guess.

Better not to use a word processor.

Chris

On Jan 26, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Friedrich Huebler wrote:

> You would be better off with a dedicated text editor. Some options
> are described in this document:
>
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html
>
> The document also contains the advice "Don't use a word processor to
> edit text files."
>
> Friedrich Huebler
>
> --- Malgosia Madajewicz <mm1174@columbia.edu> wrote:
> > In my do files, I use quotation marks around the directory in which
> > the log and data files reside, because my folder names consist of 
> > more than
> > one word. I write the do file in MS Word (2003) and save it as a plain
> > text file. I have the following problem. Stata 7 does not recognize 
> > the
> > quotation marks. It puts a question mark in their place and then
> > gives the error message that the second word in a mutilple-word 
> > folder name
> > is invalid. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
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