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st: strange global macros


From   "Gabi Huiber" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: strange global macros
Date   Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:09:22 -0400

I am having some trouble getting global macros to represent numbers properly.

Every week I receive some csv files that are named things like file_20080331.csv

I use these files in a series of do-files that reference them as
file_${t}.csv, and all is well.

However, when at the very end I produce a rolling summary report file
where I want to record the date in the same format, I am getting a
surprise result. I am doing this:

[...]
local lastline=${cycles}+1
set obs `lastline'
replace date_cohort=${t} in `lastline'
[...]

Yet the date_cohort observation corresponding to ${t}=20080331 is
20080332; and the one that corresponds to ${t}=20080421 is 20080420.

It's strange, because if ${t} were anything but 20080421, my do-files
would produce a "file not found" error when trying to look for that
day's csv file. So I am sure that ${t} stores the correct value. What
I am not sure of is why it is rendering it with a day off in either
direction.

Can anybody help?

Thank you,

Gabi
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