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Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name
From
[email protected] (Kevin H. Crow, StataCorp)
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name
Date
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:25:03 -0500
Wayne Folta <[email protected]> reported the following problem with -export
delimited-.
>
> I tried this:
>
> . use "/Users/myuserid/Documents/Stats/foo/Foo Top 25 Length.dta"
>
> . export delimited using "/Users/myuserid/Documents/Stats/foo/Top 25
>Length.csv", replace
> invalid '25'
> stata(): 3598 Stata returned error
> export_delim_write_file(): - function returned error
> export_delim_export_file(): - function returned error
> <istmt>: - function returned error
> r(3598);
>
> If I remove the spaces from the "Top 25 Length.csv", it works. Obviously
>there's no overall problem with spaces in file names, since the use uses a
>similar file name. But in the handoff to Java (I'm guessing the export is done
>in Java), something bad happens.
>
>Wayne
This is a bug in -export delimited- which is triggered by filenames with
embedded spaces. This will be fixed in the next Stata update.
Kevin
StataCorp
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