help getfilename2 
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Title

    getfilename2 -- Improved Utility for handling filename specifications

Syntax

        getfilename2 `"path-filename"'

Description

    getfilename2 adds a few new features to the _getfilename command.  In
    addition to returning the filename in r(filename), it also returns the
    path in r(path), the root (filename without the extension) in r(root),
    and the extension in r(ext).

Example

    . getfilename2 c:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base\a\auto.dta
        r(filename): auto.dta
        r(path): c:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base\a
        r(root): auto
        r(ext): dta

Author

    Jeffrey Arnold
    Payments Studies Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
    jeffrey.arnold@ny.frb.org

Also see

    Online: _getfilename, dir, findfile, macro, sysdir