Michael
With this all I got was a file named comlog$(S_DATE).txt
I then tried
Cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog($S_DATE)" and it worked fine.
Many thanks.
Alex: your idea was much more ambitious than my needs, but thank you anyway.
Don Spady
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Sent: April 25, 2006 3:32 PM
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Subject: st: Re: Making a unique log file
Cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog${S_DATE}"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Spady" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: st: Making a unique log file
>I want to make a command log file using cmdlog, but I want it to be unique
> every time I begin Stata. Right now my command is
>
> cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog",append
>
> I want it to read something like
> Cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog"+"$S_DATE"
>
> or some other unique identifier but every time I try it, the program
> aborts
> when it gets to the '+' sign. Can someone please tell me how to get this
> to
> work.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Donald W Spady MD, MSc
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