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st: RE: file wrote single opening quote


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: file wrote single opening quote
Date   Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:03:34 -0000

Ulrich Kohler
> 
> Is there a way to wrote a single opening quote to a file 
> with -file wrote-? 
> 
> In a program I have the command 
> 
>    file write texfile `"`line'"'
> 
> which wrotes the contents of the local macro `line' to the 
> file handle 
> "texfile". The command works well except for lines which 
> contains either a 
> local macro name (like `a') , or a single opening quote. In 
> the first case 
> Stata expands the local macro name to the contents of the 
> local macro. But I 
> want to have the local macro name (`a') in my file handle. 
> In the second case 
> I got an error message because Stata thinks that there 
> should be a valid 
> local macro name, which is not there.
> 
> I tried to escape each occurence of the single opening 
> quote with the 
> backslash by substituting ` with \`. But 
> 
>    local line: subinstr local line `"`"' `"\`"'
> 
> does not work for obvious reasons.  What else could be done?

use _char(96) 

Nick 
[email protected] 
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