Maoyong,
Quoting Maoyong Fan <[email protected]>:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I noticed that the Stata program will automatically stop when the
> dataset is empty after deleting the missing value and give out the
> wrong information: __0000001 not found.
>
> In my program, I need to run many programs on the same dataset, so
> I open the original dataset many times in a big program. Every time
> I drop some variables and observations, the whole program is stoped
> if one of the dataset after selection is empty.
>
> I wonder if there is some command which can force the program to go
> on even if the dataset is empty in this subprogram after
> selection.
The command you probably want is -capture-. Putting it in front of
whatever lines in your program are making it crash should do the trick.
--Mark
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Maoyong Fan
>
>
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