RE: st: Does a do file know its own name?

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

If you want a version of -do- (renamed appropriately) that creates the
log file (named appropriately), then download the -dolog- package from
SSC by typing

ssc desc dolog
ssc inst dolog, replace

If you then type

dolog mydofile

then Stata will execute -mydofile.do- and output the results to
-mydofile.log- (as well as echoing them to the Results window).

I hope this helps.

Roger


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Austin
Nichols
Sent: 16 August 2007 17:18
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Does a do file know its own name?

Jane--
As far as I know, no.  This would be a natural addition though, and I
have heard at least one request for this at Users Group meeting.

Try
  creturn list
to see where a section on "Currently running" or somesuch would be
natural, with perhaps:
            c(dofilename) = ""
            c(dofilepath) = ""
            c(adofilename) = ""
            c(adofilepath) = ""

One workaround for do-files is to create your own versions of -do- and
-run- (renamed appropriately) that create the log file and then -do-
or -run- the do-file.  Another option is to use batch-mode processing
which creates a do-file of the same name by default, and also runs a
whole lot faster.

On 8/16/07, Skinner Jane Dr (MED) <Jane.Skinner@uea.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any way of obtaining the string "MyDoFile" programmatically
> from within MyDoFile.do?  I would like to write to a log file with
> the same name (different extension, obviously) in a way that is
> robust to renaming or copying the do file, amongst other things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jane
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