RE: st: Accessing and using *.do file filename

["Seed, Paul" <paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk>]

Nancy Briggs <nancy.briggs@adelaide.edu.au> asked :
>>I am looking for a way to capture the name of the *.do file I am currently
>>using so I can display it in the
>>output file I create.  c(filename) returns the most recent data file, and
>>dir *.do does list the *.do files in the current directory, but I can't seem
>>to extract the current *.do file's name.

The simplest way is to include the do file's name as a comment 
immediately after you open the log file.
An alternative approach (and much more convenient) is to 
always give the log file the same name as the do file.


All this (and more) can be stored in standard file dummy.do, 
which can be quickly opened, revised using search & replace & then saved
at the start of any job.

***********************
* dummy.do
* Written : ...
* Purpose: ...

version 11
cap log close
log using dummy.txt, text replace 
set more off

cap prog drop dothis
prog define dothis

***********************
* You stuff goes here
***********************

end dothis

dothis

log close 
set more on

exit
***********************

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