Re: st: Using Global Variables to Specify directories in dictionaries

[Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com>]

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On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Stata List wrote:

> I am trying to loop an infiling protocol through several datasets with
> different names. I am using the following:
> 
> global dictionarypath="$root_path\$dataset_to_use.abc"
> infile using "$root_path\Dictionary.dct", clear
> 
> The dictionary starts like this:
> 
> dictionary using "$dictionarypath" {
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> file $dictionarypath.raw not found
> dictionary invalid
> 
> I've played with including and not including the file extension, and
> the directory seems correct. Any help would be appreciated.
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