Thanks Dan and Nick. With Dan's suggestion the code runs perfectly.
Perhaps it's a V7 vs V8 difference, but the documentation is at [U]
21.3.9 in my books. I should probably invest in a new set anyway.
-JW
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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:04 PM
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Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: concatenating macros
The issue is documented at [U] 21.3.10.
Nick
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Dan Menes
>
> I find backslashes in path names cause no end of trouble in
> Stata. Whenever dealing with filenames, my first action is always
>
> local pathvar: subinstr local pathvar "\\" "/", all
>
> The problem is backslashes can have special meanings when
> Stata tries to parse the line--they don't always get read as
> literal backslashes. In particular, I suspect in your
> example the backslash is getting read as a modifier on the
> quotation mark.
Wallace, John
> Sorry, the change in macro longname construction should have read:
> .local longname "`pathvar'`filename'"
>
> Note the quotes around the concatenation.
...
> The problem is that the final \ gets dropped from the path.
>
> .di "`pathvar'"
> F:\CELS\
>
> Oddly, the initial macro seems to store this correctly
>
> Changing the longname macro construction to...
> .local longname `pathvar'`filename'
> .di "`longname'"
> F:\CELS35051403
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