st: Re: Writing out Names with special signs or words

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

The macval() function may help in stopping Stata from trying to expand the 
problem characters as macros.  See -help macro-  (I don't see anything under 
help macval())

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
"Akihito Tokuhara" <akitoku4@hotmail.com> wrote

> I have some trouble trying to write out the names into a separate text 
> file,
> not writing in log file. I use the command filewrite, etc. without 
> problem.
>
> But the names may have idiosyncratic signs, or sub-words which Stata 
> interprets
> as (probably) built-in related commands or , such as "divident", "series", 
> "PIF", etc.
> <snip> Problem 1:  Sometimes, a single quote. like in #1, 15, 17, 27, 30 
> as in list above,
>  causes Stata to stop.
>
> Problem 2: Some words, like Series, divdent or PIF (see # 31, 32 and 33 
> above)
>  gives error message as "option not allowed".
>
>
> I tried many combinations of double quotes, but still cannot write out 
> those names.
> If I use command "outfile", then all names are written out as is.
>
>
> Is there any way to do it with command "file write" ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Akihito Tokuhara
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