I would reiterate here an earlier suggestion by Nick Cox:
When reading directory paths in Stata, always use forward slashes. So
dir "c:/data/kingdom/"
instead of
dir "C:\data\kingdom\"
Windows does not care. Unix would, but that's not the reason for this advice.
Rather, the payoff to Windows users from cultivating this forward
slash habit is that it will keep Stata from escaping what you don't
want escaped. To see what I am talking about try the command above
both ways. The last backward slash tells Stata to ignore the closing
quote. The forward slash does not.
Gabi
On 4/17/08, Kyle K. Hood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Raphael Fraser wrote:
>
> > what wrong with my syntax?
> >
> > local myfiles: dir "C:\data\kingdom\*.csv"
> >
> The help file is difficult to decipher only because we cannot shake our DOS
> intuition. Here is the command that you want:
>
> local myfiles: dir "C:\data\kingdom\" files "*.csv"
>
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