Dear Mike,
This is exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks to you and others for the comments.
Babak
--- On Thu, 11/19/09, Michael Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Michael Hanson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Re: How can commands be suppressed in the results window
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 9:32 PM
> I'm a little surprised by some of the
> more complex answers given on this thread -- perhaps I am
> misunderstanding what looks to be a fairly simple question.
>
> Babak:
>
> Martin's suggestion to use -quietly- seems to me to be one
> half of the solution you seek. The other half is its
> counterpart, -noisily-:
>
> // Begin example
>
> quietly {
> log using quiet_noise.log, text replace
> sysuse auto
> noisily: regress price mpg foreign
> log close
> }
>
> // End example
>
> Note that only the results of the -regress- command are
> displayed, and not the call to the -regress- command
> itself. Is that something like what you are looking
> for?
>
> Note also that if you look at the file "quiet_noise.log"
> with a plain text editor, you'll see that it only contains
> the results of the commands you precede with -noisily:-
> . This log file might be more useful for you than
> (say) copying and pasting from the Results window, should
> you have some post-processing of the output in mind.
> Using -estout- or a similar command is arguably an even
> better way to control what you output and how it looks,
> especially for inclusion in professional documents.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Babak Oskooei wrote:
>
> > Thanks Martin, I probably did not clearly express my
> question. I do want to have the output, but I would like to
> suppress the command that generated the output from
> appearing in the results window.
> >
> > I hope this clarifies my question.
> >
> > Babak
> >
> > --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: st: RE: Re: How can commands be
> suppressed in the results window
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 9:03 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> You can put curly braces around the block of
> commands whose
> >> output you do
> >> not wish to see:
> >>
> >> qui{
> >> //no output for commands
> here
> >> }
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