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Re: st: profile.do couldn't start


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: profile.do couldn't start
Date   Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:26:54 +0100

Are spaces allowed in filenames on your system? I guess it's Unix or
Linux that's not playing rather than Stata.

Try this:

local date = subinstr("$S_DATE", " ", "", .)
log using "/users/`c(username)'/documents/statalogs/`date'.log/", append

Nick

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why Stata couldn't start my profile.do? I'm getting the following
> error for the program below.
>
>
> file /users/DM/documents/statalogs/ 5 Apr 2011.log/.log could not be opened
>
>
> *!Version 0.1 - Daniel
> set mem 500m
> set matsize 1000
> set logtype text
> log using "/users/`c(username)'/documents/statalogs/$S_DATE.log/", append
> display "DateTime: $ S_DATE $ S_TIME"
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