Many thanks for your suggestions, i will have a crack to see if i can
make it work.
Adrian
On 21/04/2008, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> But you can happily put a colon inside the macro.
>
> local r "R://myserver.ac.uk/"
>
> or whatever.
>
> Like Austin, I am using forward slashes here. They will work fine even
> under Windows. As the backslash \ is used by Stata as an escape
> character you can get weird results otherwise. See [U] 18.3.11.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Austin Nichols
>
>
> Adrian Sayers <[email protected]>:
>
> Don't you just want
> local r "//myserver.ac.uk/"
> dir `r'Research
> dir `r'Stats
> ? I.e. there's no reason to put a colon in the name of the macro, and
> it is not allowed in any case.
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Adrian Sayers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am working in two locations, and in one location i have complete
> > acess to the whole server, and the file path starts R:Research in the
> > other location which i work a few day a week the path starts R:Stats I
> > thought the easiest way to solve this was to specify the server name
> > instead and this would solve all my problems. So i was going to change
> > the R: to the name of the server. This would solve all my problems.
> >
> >
>
> > On 21/04/2008, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Adrian,
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, why do you need a macro name with a colon?
> > >
> > >
> > > Friedrich
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Sayers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > I am having trouble creating a macro with a colon.
> > > >
> > > > I have just started working in two locations and in essence the
> server
> > > > name is a little different in each place.
> > > >
> > > > in essence i want to delcare a macro which is `R:' followed by a
> string
> > > >
> > > > like this:
> > > >
> > > > local R: "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder"
> > > >
> > > > di "`R:'"
> > > > \\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder
> > > >
> > > > however i get this error message
> > > >
> > > > "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder not allowed
> > > >
> > > > I know that local macros have extended functions which use
> colons is
> > > > there any way of getting round this?
>
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