Ingo,
using brackets will help to solve your issue
global test "Just a "
di "${test}test!"
Using brackets enable you to tell Stata were the global macro's name
ends since a global macro's content is access by just adding the
$-sign at the beginning of its name.
Regards
Sebastian
On 4/19/07, Ingo Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a problem using global macros:
>
> . local Test "aut"
> . sysuse `Test'o , clear
>
> works fine and opens the auto.dta dataset. However,
>
> . global Test "aut"
> . sysuse $Testo , clear
>
> gives the following error message:
>
> invalid file specification
> r(198);
>
> I know that I could solve the problem at hand by introducing a local
> macro as follows:
>
> . global Test "aut"
> . local Test "$Test"
> . sysuse `Test'o , clear
>
> Unfortunately, however, this is quite cumbersome and there are lots of
> macros in my do-files which all begin with the same first part (in the
> example above: "aut") but whose second part changes (the "o" in
> "auto"). I need to use global macros because I have to exchange
> information between several do-files and therefore cannot rely on
> local macros.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Ingo
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