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Re: st: capturing directories and file names that start with numebrs, ex: "1111.zip" (problem with dir extended_macro_function)


From   daniel klein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: capturing directories and file names that start with numebrs, ex: "1111.zip" (problem with dir extended_macro_function)
Date   Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:09:08 +0100

The example just sent does not actually work. This however has nothing
to do with the file name beeing numeric ...

Try instead

cd c:/ado
sysuse auto ,clear
sa 42.dta
di `"`: dir . file "*.dta'""'
erase 42.dta

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Daniel

-- 
This works perfect for me

cd c:/ado
sysuse auto ,clear
sa 42.dta
di `": dir . file "*.dta""'
erase 42.dta
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