Nick Cox wrote:
> I don't know of any such built-in,
> but I must be missing something. It
> is surely about as much typing to do the
> specific
> di "example.do"
> as to do this by some general code,
> even if that existed.
Oh, thanks for the nice trick. Seriously, my specific need is due to
the fact that I usually have a set of similar DO files that do
similar work, and it will save time and unnecessary hassle if such a
macro exists -- too bad it doesn't.
Eddy
> Eddy
>> Is there a built-in macro that register the name of the DO file
that
>> is currently running? I wish to use it to print the file name to
the
>> session log, so that when I looked at the log next time, I'll know
>> which DO file was used to generate the results.
>>
>> That is, what I need is something like the (bogus) $FileName macro
in
>> the following example, which should take the value of "example.do"
>> (with or without file path). Thus, when I open mylog.txt months
>> later, I'll know it is the result of running example.do.
>>
>> ====== example.do ==========
>> capture log close
>> log using mylog.txt
>>
>> di "$FileName"
>>
>> .......
>>
>> ============================
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance if the question has been asked before -- I
>> searched but couldn't find the answer.
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