John-Paul Ferguson wrote (excerpted):
My question therefore is this: how can I retrieve the current date or time
and hold it as a genuine string, such that I can manipulate it?
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Something like the following should work.
Joseph Coveney
program autolog
local now = subinstr("`c(current_time)'", ":", "", .)
local today = string(date("`c(current_date)'", "dmy"), "%dCYND")
local timestamp `today'T`now'
// capture log close
log using `timestamp'.log, replace
end
. autolog
(note: file A:\20050325T143342.log not found)
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log: A:\20050325T143342.log
log type: text
opened on: 25 Mar 2005, 14:33:43
. log close
log: A:\20050325T143342.log
log type: text
closed on: 25 Mar 2005, 14:33:46
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