Re: st: local within global

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

The backslash \ is probably messing up what you want as it is being  
interpreted as an escape character. Use a forward slash, even under MS  
Windows if you want \ meaning separator within filenames.

Nick

On 25 Nov 2011, at 15:59, adrien bouguen  
<abouguen@povertyactionlab.org> wrote:

> Dear,
>
> I still face a problem when I want to call a local within a global. I
> have got a global which indicates my input directory and another
> global which defines some dta names. Stata refuses to open the file
> even when I add the curly brackets as advised in other conversations.
>
> For instance:
>
> I define two macros:
> global input "directory"
> global X "X1 X2 X3 X4"
>
> then a loop such as:
>
> foreach i in $score {
> use "$input\`i'", clear
> }
> does not work. Writing "${input\`i'}" or "${input}\`i'" or even
> "${input\{`i'}}" does not solve the problem.
>
> I make it work with the cumbersome:
> foreach i in $score {
> local j="`i'"
> use "$input\`j'", clear
> }
> Is there any other
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