Re: st: Debugging: reporting line number of loop or do-file causing error

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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Earlier this year, David Elliot was working on a program to enhance the debugging of programs/dofiles using macro expansion, loops, etc.  He sent me a couple of versions of the ado-file for some feedback , but I don't think it ever made its way to the SSC  (at least I couldn't -findit-, but maybe the SSC isn't fully operational yet?).  You might contact David directly about the getting a current version of the program to see if that would be useful or not.
Here is a thread where he posts an initial version of his program -dodebug-...I know he's added more functionality to the program since then, but I don't recall whether that includes the functionality you are asking about:

	http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-02/msg00420.html

Eric
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On Jul 29, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Aleksander Rutkowski wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any convenient way to make Stata report (together with an
> error message) the line number of a loop or a line number of a do-file
> which is causing an error?  In general, I think this is an important
> feature needed for efficient debugging.
> 
> When loops are executed, the commands are not reported in the results
> window, so it is difficult to quickly identify which command causes an
> error. So far, I used the following solution, but it is not very
> convenient:
> 
> local i 0
> forval j = 1/100 {
>   local ++i
>   di "Now executing line `i'..."
>   ...some command here...
>   local ++i
>   di "Now executing line `i'..."
>   ...some command here...
>   ...etc...
> }
> 
> Alek
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