RE: st: file name problem with stata2mplus

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Please see 

<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1012/date/article-749.html> 

for better advice and the Statalist FAQ for suggestions on etiquette here, specifically 

<http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#relation> 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Laura Gibbons

I would hack the program.

Change line 40 to:

   outsheet using "`using'.dat" , comma nonames nolabel `replace'

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Evelyn Ersanilli wrote:

> I've been experiencing some problems with converting a file from Stata to Mplus using the 'stata2mplus' command
> The problem is that the command does not seem to accept spaces in the destination file/folder name.
> The normal Stata strategy of using quotation marks doesn't seem to work
> I've tried:
>
> stata2mplus using  "C:\My Documents\Pilot 2" , replace
> invalid 'Documents'
> r(198);
>
> stata2mplus using  (C:\My Documents\Pilot 2)
> invalid 'C'
> r(198);
>
> . stata2mplus using  ``C:\My Documents\Pilot 2"
> invalid '`'
> r(198);
>
> . stata2mplus using  `C:\My Documents\Pilot 2"
> invalid 'C'
> r(198);
>
> . stata2mplus using  "C:\My Documents\Pilot 2"
> invalid 'Documents'
> r(198);
>
> I've found a work-around by putting the file on a USB stick so that I can lose the 'My Documents' part, but I feel that there must be a better way.

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