Hi all,
I've written a program that, among a whole lot of other things, logs some output. I instruct the user to create a folder in (the fairly generic location of) her C drive, in C:/, called "RMTestResults". I'm wondering if anyone knows some code (if there is some) to automatically create this folder and tag it with the time and date. Perhaps maybe also tag it with a short description set by the user. For example, create a folder in C:/ with name "RMTestResults-Aug-21-06 1:20pm Run 1" (where Run 1 was specified by the user before executing the program) and save the log of the results there.
My current code looks something like this (using V9 of Stata):
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syntax **stuff here for time series*** [, **options here** **perhaps some text input command here to execute the macro in the folder tagging line?***]
***Program code for other stuff here ****
log using "C:\RMTestResults\Results_of_RM_Test", append
log close
log using "C:\RMTestResults\Results_of_RM_Test", replace
***code that does stuff here****
log close
**** more code here****
end
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Btw: the reason I have an append and replace on the same log is that I want to create the folder if it's not there and I want to replace its contents with the current run's results if it's already there ( the replace option didn't create a new folder when I tried it so I preceded it with an append run first)
I suspect I'll have to type something in the syntax line at the top of my program to accept a user's description of the folder but I have no idea how to write code to create and tag a folder with date/time and description.
I also realize that this (saving on the C drive) will only work on Windows because Macs don't have a "C" drive, the generic name I believe is "Macintosh HD" and the path conventions are a bit different. I think Macs use \ instead of /, etc. Anyway, that's not too much of a problem.
If anyone has any ideas I'd greatly appreciate them sharing them with me.
Many thanks,
Rodrigo
Rodrigo Martell
<http://www.frontier-economics.com>
Frontier Economics Pty. Ltd.
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Melbourne VIC 3000
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