st: Re: Global Macro?

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I usually approach this problem by using relative referencing for file paths 
in my do files.  For example, you could have lines like:

log using logs/thislog
use data/myfile
...
save results/myresults

Then you do files will run just fine regardless of where the main directory 
is located, as long as the subdirectory structure is the same.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

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<btallaire@mail.utexas.edu> asked:
Subject: st: Global Macro?



> Hi I have a question:
>
> I have a number of subroutines that I want to be able to run from a master 
> file
> and also send to someone else who has a different file structure than 
> myself.
> What I tried to do was this:
>
> *************************
> global do_dir "C:\Project\Do Files"
> global data_dir "C:\Project\Data"
> global log_dir "C:\Project\Log Files"
> global output_dir "C:\Project\Output"
>
> do Subroutine1
> do Subroutine2
> do Subroutine3
>
> macro drop do_dir
> macro drop data_dir
> macro drop output_dir
> ************************
>
> There are parts of each subroutine that refer to each directory and I just 
> want
> to reference them in this file, so the person that I'm working with just 
> has to
> cut and paste once for each directory when I send it to them.
>
> Is there a better way to do this??
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
> Ben
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