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Re: st: capturing directories and file names that start with numebrs, ex: "1111.zip" (problem with dir extended_macro_function)
From
daniel klein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: capturing directories and file names that start with numebrs, ex: "1111.zip" (problem with dir extended_macro_function)
Date
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:09:08 +0100
The example just sent does not actually work. This however has nothing
to do with the file name beeing numeric ...
Try instead
cd c:/ado
sysuse auto ,clear
sa 42.dta
di `"`: dir . file "*.dta'""'
erase 42.dta
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Daniel
--
This works perfect for me
cd c:/ado
sysuse auto ,clear
sa 42.dta
di `": dir . file "*.dta""'
erase 42.dta
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