Re: st: RE: macro expansion

[Sean Shu <sshu@hkpr.on.ca>]

Hi,
It works the same after I took the trailing slash in my path macro. The 
back slash in my fname macro works fine in STATA. I guess something else 
is wrong. Thanks!

Sean

Alex Ogan wrote:

> You have a trailing slash in your path macro, but then you manually add
> another slash in your save command.
>
> You have a backslash in your fname macro which should be a forward
> slash.
>
> It's often helpful to use a display command to check what you are trying
> to do in situations like this, i.e.: 
> display "`path'/`fname'`i'" 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Shu
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: macro expansion
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have following code which let two local macros expand in a file path. 
> But after running the looping, the files are saved under C: directly, 
> instead of the directory suggested by the code.
>
> local path = "C:/EPI Projects/RRFSS Trends/"
> local fname = "Smoking Vehicle\vehicle0"
> cd "C:\EPI Projects\RRFSS Trends\data"
> forval i = 1/4 {
> 	insheet cat prop ucl lcl popsize using raw0`i'.txt, clear
> 	generate year = 200`i'
> 	save "`path'/`fname'`i'", replace
> }
>
> Messages from STATA after running the above code
> forval	i	= 1/4 {
> 2.		insheet cat prop ucl lcl popsize using raw0`i'.txt,
> clear
> 3.		generate year = 200`i'
> 4.		*save "C:\EPI Projects/RRFSS,	replace
> .		save "`path'/`fname'`i'", replace
> 5. }
>
> (5 vars, 2 obs)
> file /1.dta saved
> (5 vars, 2 obs)
> file /2.dta saved
> (5 vars, 2 obs)
> file /3.dta saved
> (5 vars, 2 obs)
> file /4.dta saved
>
> Any one knows what has gone wrong?  Thanks so much!
>
> sean
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