Re: st: auto macro for name of do file?

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On May 25, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Paul Burkander wrote:
> Sorry, I must have missed that in your previous email.


np


> I'm working with a team on a large data cleaning project.  Right now  
> I'm writing an ado file that uses stata's merge command, but  
> produces a series of reports with each merge.  I wanted the name of  
> the reports to use the name of the do file.  There are many people  
> working on the project, with varying experience with Stata, so I'm  
> trying to make this process as user friendly as possible.


Ok, that helps.  From what you've said, I would suggest one of the  
following:

1) In your program (i.e., ado-file), add a "do-file name" parameter  
(possibly required).  Then in your do-file, call the program like this:


loc fname <name of do-file>

<do-file code>

myprogram <merge spec> <varlist> <using filename>, <options>  
dofile(`"`fname'"')


2) Alternatively, you could set up the report (complete with header  
including the do-file name) in the do-file itself, and then just  
capture the output of your command as part of the normal logging  
process.  This might work well if you are using -log- to generate your  
report, but not if you are writing the report yourself (i.e., via - 
file write-).

Others may have better suggestions...


-- Phil

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