Just use a forward slash in front of the local macro, and lose the
quotes in between:
"c:\union_pop\orig/`file'"
The backslash acts as escape character in Stata. You only need to
worry about it if it's directly followed by a macro.
Eva
2008/10/3 Caleb Southworth <[email protected]>:
I misunderstand something about the way locals are identified. The below
program crashes when I try to -use- the filename in `r(files)'. If I take
out the path name and change into that directory, then the program runs.
How
can I make this work with the path name? What is the proper way to use a
local that is appended to another string, such as the path? Thanks!
. fs c:\union_pop\orig\gifford*.dta
gifford_2000.dta
. foreach file in `r(files)'{
2. use "c:\union_pop\orig\""`file'", clear
3. ds _*
4. foreach var of varlist `r(varlist)'{
5. bysort id: assert `var'==. if `var'[_n+1]!=.
6. }
7. }
invalid '"gifford_2000.dta'
r(198);
end of do-file
r(198);
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