Ang: Re: st: Words surrounded with single quotes in a local macro

[Tomas Lind <tomas.lind@sll.se>]

After having created locals temp and temp2 I display them.
The first local, temp, show the names I have excepted.

di "`tempo'"
tf1 tf2 tf3 tf4 tf5 tf6 tf7 tf8

However, Stata doesn´t return anything for temp2

di "`tempo2'"


When Stata executes the append-statement, I get an error message:

append using "`tempo2'"
file  not found


/Tomas



-----owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu skrev: ----- 
Till: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Från: Nick Cox 
Sänt av: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Datum: 2014-01-15 13:52
Ärende: Re: st: Words surrounded with single quotes in a local macro

You can help yourself debug this by showing us the value of `tempo2'
and explaining what "Do[es] NOT Work" means precisely.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 15 January 2014 12:30, Tomas Lind <tomas.lind@sll.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I´m setting up number of tempfiles named tf1, tf2, tf3 . . .  .
>
> First I create the names and put them into a macro called tempo.  That works fine.
>
> The problem is with the second makro, temp2, where I try to store the names `tf1&#8217;  `tf2&#8217;  `tf3&#8217; . . . enclosed in quotes to be able to use them in an append statement.
>
> I want the append statement to look like this:
> append `tf1' `tf2' `tf3' . . .
>
>
> forvalues  i = 1/`Number'  {            // This many tempfiles
> local  tempo   `tempo'    tf`i'    //  named  tf1, tf2, tf3 . . . okey
> local  tempo2  `tempo2'  `"`tf`i''"'    // `tf1&#8217;  `tf2&#8217;  `tf3&#8217; . . .  Do NOT work
> }
>
> tempfile `tempo'                              // works fine
>
>
> Loop that runs several regressions and store
> each result in a tempfile
>
>
> append using "`tempo2'"              // Do NOT work
>
>
>
>
> Anyone have a solution on this?
>
> I´m running Stata 13.1 on a PC
>
> Yours
> Tomas
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/