Temp file error.

[Anton Hummer]

I'm having a problem with a little bit of Code that is:

merge 1:1 week using `A1', nogen
tempfile A1
save `A1'

The result I'm getting in Stata is:

. merge 1:1 week using `A1', nogen //625
invalid file specification
r(198);

I'm a bit clueless why this is happening. tempfiles are used and saved before in this do-File. Is there any way to inspect A1 at this point in the do-file? More importantly: Is there any obvious error in this code, as i tried finding something and just couldn't get to it?

[Joseph Coveney]

Your error is in code that you're not showing.

Beforehand you needed to have created the temporary file named A1, and saved in it a dataset containing a variable (containing unique values) called week.

Why are you creating the temporary file afterward?