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RE: st: Creating a local macro with a colon


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Creating a local macro with a colon
Date   Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:07:24 +0100

But you can happily put a colon inside the macro. 

local r "R://myserver.ac.uk/"

or whatever. 

Like Austin, I am using forward slashes here. They will work fine even
under Windows. As the backslash \ is used by Stata as an escape
character you can get weird results otherwise. See [U] 18.3.11. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Austin Nichols

Adrian Sayers <[email protected]>:

Don't you just want
 local r "//myserver.ac.uk/"
 dir `r'Research
 dir `r'Stats
?  I.e. there's no reason to put a colon in the name of the macro, and
it is not allowed in any case.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Adrian Sayers <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working in two locations, and in one location i have complete
> acess to the whole server, and the file path starts R:Research in the
> other location which i work a few day a week the path starts R:Stats I
> thought the easiest way to solve this was to specify the server name
> instead and this would solve all my problems. So i was going to change
> the R: to the name of the server. This would solve all my problems.
>
>
> On 21/04/2008, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Adrian,
> >
> >  Out of curiosity, why do you need a macro name with a colon?
> >
> >
> >  Friedrich
> >
> >
> >  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Sayers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >  > Dear all,
> >  >
> >  >  I am having trouble creating a macro with a colon.
> >  >
> >  >  I have just started working in two locations and in essence the
server
> >  >  name is a little different in each place.
> >  >
> >  >  in essence i want to delcare a macro which is `R:' followed by a
string
> >  >
> >  >  like this:
> >  >
> >  >  local R: "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder"
> >  >
> >  >  di "`R:'"
> >  >  \\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder
> >  >
> >  >  however i get this error message
> >  >
> >  >  "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder not allowed
> >  >
> >  >  I know that local macros have extended functions which use
colons is
> >  >  there any way of getting round this?

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