On 5/6/05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess you need to try to fool the parser
> by, as it were, smuggling your slash through
> customs without it being spotted.
>
> I'd try
>
> local slash "/"
>
> ...
>
> ! rm ${temp}`slash'*.*
>
> in the hope that the splitting off of
> comments precedes the interpretation of
> the local macro.
>
Excellent, that works a treat, Stata does indeed appear to parse for
comments before assessing the contents of the macro. Have added that
to my profile.do as a global macro so that it will always be
available....
profile.do
<snip>
global SLASH "/"
</snip>
. di "$SLASH"
/
...it works perfectly in the sample do-file as shown in the previous posts.
Many thanks Nick,
Neil
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