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

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I endorse Ronnie's comments, particularly because he is echoing the FAQ.

On the substantive Stata problem, use forwards slashes / not \

Nick

On 17 Sep 2012, at 18:46, Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Stata List wrote:
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> > 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
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> > The dictionary starts like this:
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> > dictionary using "$dictionarypath" {
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> > I get the following error:
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> > file $dictionarypath.raw not found
> > dictionary invalid
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> > 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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