Re: st: replace-all can crash do-file

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinestreetfoundation.org>]

Hewan, are your using PC or UNIX/MAC version?
I've never encountered that problem.
Nevertheless, compulsively saving is not difficult.
Michael


On May 14, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Hewan Belay wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
>
> I couldn't find any reference to this issue in the archives, though  
> I am sure it must have already afflicted many.
>
> It appears that the find-and-replace option in the Stata 11 do-file  
> handles "replace all" (e.g. when you do CTRL+H) in a way that can  
> crash the do-file--and lead to exasperating loss of data if one  
> hasn't saved the file in some while. It seems that when using  
> "replace all", for example when replacing all "hh" with "hh_id", it  
> never stops replacing, thus creating hh_id, then hh_id_id, etc.,  
> leading to a do-file freeze then crash. If not clear what I mean,  
> give it a try! Even Notepad is more intelligent and only searches  
> once through the document when using "replace all".
>
> I try to be careful about using "replace all" in stata (e.g. in the  
> above example, replacing all "hh" with "house_id" would not cause a  
> crash), but it's easy to forget that it won't stop looping, and face  
> an unpleasant do-file crash. Is there any setting I can change to  
> avoid this behaviour in do-files?
>
> Thanks,
> Hewan
>
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Best wishes,

Michael McCulloch, LAc MPH PhD
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