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


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Saving CSV (on Mac) errors with spaces in file name
Date   Sat, 3 Aug 2013 21:25:56 +0100

I am puzzled by the Java mention here. What you are seeing is various
Mata functions complaining. But it does look like a bug.
Nick
[email protected]


On 3 August 2013 19:21, 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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