Unrecognized characters in filename when importing using: "local myfiles: dir "directory" files "*.csv"

[Adi JJahic]

Hello!

I have a file named "abc+def+mm+dd+yyyy.csv" in directory "$path/survey responses". The file is being downloaded directly from Qualtrics and I want to not have to change the file name.

However, when I run the following code:

local myfilelist : dir "$path/survey responses" files "*.csv"
foreach file of local myfilelist {
    
    di in red "`file'"
    import delimited using "`file'" , clear varnames(1) 
}

the code is unable to find the correct file to import because this line of code "local myfilelist : dir "$path/survey responses" files "*.csv"" removes the plus signs and interprets it as "abc def mm dd yyyy.csv".
Is there anything I can do to solve this?
Perhaps, is there another way I can import an arbitrary file name from a specific directory?

Thanks for the help everyone!

[Clyde Schechter]

Duplicate post. See https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...tory-files-csv.