Re: st: basic string operations

[Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com>]

Hi,
Some helpful pointers
- Please mention OS and version of Stata

- Include the exact command you typed and error you got (I say this because I notice that in the code below you are 
using "-inflie-" and I think what you actually typed -infile-. You also say that the code bails out in the -insheet- 
loop but I cant see that loop in the code you show below).

Finally, your problem might be an issue with the slashes, try changing the last back slash to a forward slash

"C:\Program Files\ .......\Dict/file.dct"
                               ^				


Alexander Nervedi wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a dictionary in a set of folders and data in another folder.
>
> global dict "C:\Program Files\ .......\Dict"
> global data "C:\Program Files\ .......\Data"
> gloabl filename "file2 ... file 200"
>
> Now I need to place a call like
>
> inflie "C:\Program Files\ .......\Dict\file.dct", using("C:\Program Files\ 
> .......\Data\file1.raw"
> tempfile data
> save "`data'"
>
> for file in `filename'{
>
> inflie "'$dict`$file.dct' ", using(" $data'$var' ")
> append "`data'"
>
> }
>
>
> the code keeps bailing at the for loop insheet saying it cant chaneg 
> directories. is there a neat way of specifying directory changes with two 
> strings ?
>
> any help would be really great. i have been banging my head on this for a 
> bit.
>
> alex
>
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