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Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name
From
William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name
Date
Sat, 3 Aug 2013 14:16:34 -0600
Have you tried using compound double quotes?
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On Aug 3, 2013, at 12:21, Wayne Folta <[email protected]> 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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