Re: st: minor annoyance

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

duh.  Good point; thanks!

Nick

Phil Schumm wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Nick Winter wrote:
> > If you are doing this, even better would be to include the following 
> > in profile.do
> >
> > global today date("\`c(current_date)'","DMY")
> >
> > Note the backslash before the open-single-quote (`), which means the 
> > global macro contains the literal string `c(current_date)' which is 
> > evaluated every time the global is called, rather than containing the 
> > value of c(current_date) at the time you assign the global.
>
> Technically, you don't even need the macro expansion characters here:
>
>     global today date(c(current_date),"DMY")
>
> will do just fine.
>
>
> -- Phil
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