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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: profile.do couldn't start |
| Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:26:54 +0100 |
Are spaces allowed in filenames on your system? I guess it's Unix or
Linux that's not playing rather than Stata.
Try this:
local date = subinstr("$S_DATE", " ", "", .)
log using "/users/`c(username)'/documents/statalogs/`date'.log/", append
Nick
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Daniel Marcelino <dmsilva.br@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why Stata couldn't start my profile.do? I'm getting the following
> error for the program below.
>
>
> file /users/DM/documents/statalogs/ 5 Apr 2011.log/.log could not be opened
>
>
> *!Version 0.1 - Daniel
> set mem 500m
> set matsize 1000
> set logtype text
> log using "/users/`c(username)'/documents/statalogs/$S_DATE.log/", append
> display "DateTime: $ S_DATE $ S_TIME"
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