David Harrison replied:
> The problem is that the filename needs to be in quotes (as it contains
> spaces)... try
>
> saving("`file`i''")
>
> Interestingly, built-in programs with the -saving()- option don't seem to
> suffer from this problem... for example
>
> sysuse auto
> tempfile test
> scatter headroom trunk, saving(`test')
>
> works fine, despite their being spaces in the path - it comes up with the
> DOS abbreviated version... C:\DOCUME~1\ etc.
Sorry for the delay in response! Well, the suggested change worked, but it
only got me as far as:
. *Create data set: 7 variables with values {1, 2, 3}
. clear
. set obs 30
obs was 0, now 30
. qui {
.
. *Create frequency values
. qui {
.
. dsconcat `file1' `file2' `file3' `file4' `file5' `file6' `file7'
file C:\Documents.dta not found
r(601);
end of do-file
r(601);
Is this odd, considering that the lines
qui {
forv i = 1/7 {
tempfile file`i'
xcontract c`i', freq(freq) idnum(`i') saving("`file`i''")
}
}
creates and prepares the seven tempfiles for -dsconcat-? Being a
programming dunce, I'm clearly missing something obvious. I'm only
pursuing this, by the way, because Richard Sherman's original problem is
an interesting one for me as well.
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