At 19:51 26/01/2005, Malgosia Madajewicz wrote:
Hi all,
In my do files, I use quotation marks around the directory in which the
log and data files reside, because my folder names consist of more than
one word. I write the do file in MS Word (2003) and save it as a plain
text file. I have the following problem. Stata 7 does not recognize the
quotation marks. It puts a question mark in their place and then gives
the error message that the second word in a mutilple-word folder name is
invalid. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
For a while my solution was to use MS DOS encoding, but as of today this
does not solve the problem any more for some reason.
As a Microsoft Word 2000 user (strictly for reasons of compatability with
other Microsoft Word 2000 users), I cannot comment on what Microsoft Word
2003 might or might not do to quotation marks. However, if Malgosia
Madajewicz is having problems as a result of this, then that might be a
good reason for using a tool other than Microsoft Word to write Stata
do-files. The Stata do-file editor is a possible basic option, and should
be available with Stata 7. However, for the longer run, even better
editors (mostly either cheap or free) are available from other sources,
who make editors as a speciality. To find more about these, refer to Web
page "Some notes on text editors for Stata users" at
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html
I hope this helps.
Roger
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