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st: RE: some code that doesn't do what I expect


From   Jesper Kj�r Hansen <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: some code that doesn't do what I expect
Date   Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:15:47 +0100

Phil,

used in this context the backslash (\) prevents macro substitution.

In this case, just use (/) instead.

Also, see the FAQ on this:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/backslash.html


/Jesper



Kind regards,

Jesper Kj�r Hansen
Student Assistant
Department of Statistics
University of Southern Denmark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Philip Greenwood
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: some code that doesn't do what I expect
> 
> I ran a do file that did something that I did not expect it 
> do. Perhaps
> someone would like to try to reproduce this behaviour, or point out my
> mistake. I'm running Stata 8.2 on WinXP. Here's the log:
> 
> *--snip--
> 
> . do "test01"
> 
> . version 8
> 
> . use "data\sndata.dta"
> 
> . local foo "a_great_big_fish"
> 
> . save "data\`foo'.dta"
> file data`foo'.dta saved
> 
> .
> end of do-file
> 
> *--snip--
> 
> I expected `foo' to evaluate to "a_great_big_fish" in the 
> save command.
> Using a double slash fixes the problem ( i.e. -save 
> "data\\`foo'.dta"- ).
> 
> cheers,
> Phil
> 
> 
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