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From | "G. Dai" <dgecon@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: using current_ time to manage the log file |
Date | Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:15:14 -0700 |
hi all, I find it is difficult to trace back my research by looking at the log files. Ideally, I'd like to name the log file with the time the do file executes, e.g., the log file is named as "10_25_7_July_2010" where 10_25 is the time and 7_July is the date. with this in mind, I'd like to use ***************begin ****** log using "/.............../"`c(current_time)'_`c(current_date)'.smcl", replace; **********end******** but failed because current_time have punctuation marks like ":" which can't be included in a file name. how you guys solve this problem? thanks, Guang * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/