Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

Have you tried using compound double quotes?

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On Aug 3, 2013, at 12:21, Wayne Folta <wfolta@mac.com> wrote:

> I tried this:
> 
> . use "/Users/myuserid/Documents/Stats/foo/Foo Top 25 Length.dta"
> 
> . export delimited using "/Users/myuserid/Documents/Stats/foo/Top 25 Length.csv", replace
> invalid '25' 
>                 stata():  3598  Stata returned error
> export_delim_write_file():     -  function returned error
> export_delim_export_file():     -  function returned error
>                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
> r(3598);
> 
> If I remove the spaces from the "Top 25 Length.csv", it works. Obviously there's no overall problem with spaces in file names, since the use uses a similar file name. But in the handoff to Java (I'm guessing the export is done in Java), something bad happens.
> 
>   Wayne
> 
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