Loops, locals and saving files

[Mattias Öhman]

I want to save a number of files within a loop using the local macro as filename, for example

forvalues i = 1/10 {
                             clear all
                             insobs 10
                             gen test = `i'
                             save "C:\Users\matoh389\Downloads\`i'", replace
}

In this case, I want to save ten files namned "1.dta", "2.dta", ..., "10.dta" respectively in the directory "C:\Users\matoh389\Downloads". However, what the above code does is to save one file (probably overwriting it nine times) namned "Downloads`i'.dta" in the directory "C:\Users\matoh389". What am I doing wrong?

I am using the Windows version of Stata 14.0, current update level: 10 Jun 2015.

[Nick Cox]

See [U] 18.3.11 Constructing Windows filenames by using macros

and/or

SJ-8-3 pr0042 . . . . . . . Stata tip 65: Beware the backstabbing backslash
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/08 SJ 8(3):446--447 (no commands)
tip to use forward slash instead of backslash for
directory and file names

http://www.stata-journal.com/article...article=pr0042

[Mattias Öhman]

Ah, of course! Thanks!