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Re: st: local within global


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: local within global
Date   Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:36:18 +0000

The backslash \ is probably messing up what you want as it is being interpreted as an escape character. Use a forward slash, even under MS Windows if you want \ meaning separator within filenames.

Nick

On 25 Nov 2011, at 15:59, adrien bouguen <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear,

I still face a problem when I want to call a local within a global. I
have got a global which indicates my input directory and another
global which defines some dta names. Stata refuses to open the file
even when I add the curly brackets as advised in other conversations.

For instance:

I define two macros:
global input "directory"
global X "X1 X2 X3 X4"

then a loop such as:

foreach i in $score {
use "$input\`i'", clear
}
does not work. Writing "${input\`i'}" or "${input}\`i'" or even
"${input\{`i'}}" does not solve the problem.

I make it work with the cumbersome:
foreach i in $score {
local j="`i'"
use "$input\`j'", clear
}
Is there any other
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