Writing double quotes to a file

[Attaullah Shah]

I am struglling with writing double quotes to a file, see the following example

cap file close myfile
file open myfile using address.do, write replace
file write myfile "global root `" " " '  `c(pwd)'"  _n
cap file close myfile

However, it returns the error

invalid syntax

. I have also tried `=char(34)' instead of `" " "', or " " " but to no avail. Your comments are appreicated.

[Svend Juul]

This seems to work:

display `"global root "`c(pwd)'" "'

[Attaullah Shah]

Thanks Svend, it worked. I had found a different solution, that is, to write each double quote on a single line, i.e.

file write myfile "global root"
file write myfile """ 
file write myfile `c(pwd)'
file write myfile """ _n

however, your approach is far cleaner.