Re: st: get the current path

[Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>]

Your best bet might be to put your class somewhere in a directory
visible in -adopath-, and then use -findfile- to locate it.

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Sun Yutao
<yutao.sun.statalist@outlook.com> wrote:
> Thank you for replying. I'm writing an ado-file and it needs an object (a
> class I wrote), but the thing is the class also can (and will) be used by
> other ado-files (and end-users can use it if they want), so I donĄŻt really
> want to put the class definition and the ado part in one file...
>
> (I purchased "an introduction in stata programming" but it's still on its
> way...so if you know a solution from the book you could also point out for me
> from the book...many thanks!!
>
> Best regards,
> Sun Yutao
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:28 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: get the current path
>
> Strictly, what I mean is that
>
> programs defined by ado-files can call other programs defined by ado-files,
> and so on,
>
> and should point out that how programs are defined is secondary here.
> (A program _could_ be defined interactively, although few ever are unless they
> are very short.)
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the short answer is that
>>
>> 1. You, the user, can always keep track of what you are using.
>>
>> 2. It's equally true that what is being executed is not accessible to
>> the user as a single path, not least because it need not be one. Given
>> that do-files can call other do-files, and so on, and do-files can
>> call ado-files, and so on, and ado-files can call ado-files, and so
>> on, there can easily be a complicated nested hierarchy. So, the
>> current do-file may be uniquely defined if there is just one, but it's
>> not a Stata concept given the possibility of a hierarchy.
>>
>> Any way, what difference would it make?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Sun Yutao
>> <yutao.sun.statalist@outlook.com> wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to get the current path of the file that is
>>> being executed? i.e. if c:/foo/bar.do is being executed, then how do
>>> I know by some command that it's c:/foo/
>>>
>>> I donĄŻt need the working dir...
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