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

[Hua Peng <hpeng@stata.com>]

Hewan Belay <hewan_belay@yahoo.com> reported that the Do-File Editor
in Stata 11 for Windows can crash when doing a Find/Replace All with
the "regular expression" option checked:

>Yes, I still get a crash when "regular expression" is checked, but
>no crash when it isn't checked.

This will be fixed in the next Stata executable update.

--Hua
hpeng@stata.com


On 5/16/2010 2:08 PM, Hewan Belay wrote:
> Yes, I still get a crash when "regular expression" is checked, but no crash when it isn't checked.
>
> Re the update, I stand guilty as charged (by Kit). I haven't gotten in the habit of regularly doing an -update all-. But I promise to do so in the future before going to statalist with a question.
>
> I hope I can at least partially make it up with this:
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/regex.html
> Here is all the information about what regular expressions are, and what they do in stata. I just tried them out. For example, if you type ^[0-9]+  in the "find what" box, it finds all expressions of a series of digits in the do file. But it only find those digit series that are at the very beginning of a line, not those that are somewhere in the middle of a line, or even those that start at a line after one space. The website above goes into much more details on regular expressions in stata.
>
> Hewan
>
> --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Martin Weiss<martin.weiss1@gmx.de>  wrote:
>
>    
> > From: Martin Weiss<martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> > Subject: RE: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 1:38 PM
> > <>
> > Just to be sure, the "regular expression" problem has not
> > disappeared, has it? Btw, what prevented you from updating
> > earlier?
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> > -original message-
> > Subject: RE: Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
> > From: Hewan Belay<hewan_belay@yahoo.com>
> > Date: 16-05-2010 15:35
> >
> > I now updated my stata, and that took care of the problem.
> > Thanks for that advice. And it apparently also took care of
> > the other problems Kit listed, e.g. do file executing the
> > line following the selected lines.
> > Many thanks!
> > Hewan
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Martin Weiss<martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > From: Martin Weiss<martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> > > Subject: RE: Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash
> > >        
> > do-file
> >      
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 11:36 AM
> > >
> > > <>
> > >
> > > "(which as Martin indicates is a separate process
> > >        
> > under
> >      
> > > Windows)"
> > >
> > >
> > > Does that mean that I can kill it separately, thus
> > > preserving my precious
> > > main process which may hold important data? (Weird
> > >        
> > that I
> >      
> > > should ask Kit for
> > > Windows advice, is it not :-) )
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]
> > > On Behalf Of Kit Baum
> > > Sent: Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010 13:34
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: re:Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
> > >
> > > <>
> > > Stata update
> > >
> > >        
> > of   21oct2009   included
> >      
> > > (note points A,B):
> > >
> > >      Stata executable, Windows
> > >
> > >       22.  The Do-file Editor
> > >        
> > has the
> >      
> > > following new features and fixes:
> > >
> > >            A.  New option
> > > "Replace all in selection" restricts the replacement
> > > of
> > >                all
> > > occurrences to the currently selected text.
> > >
> > >            B.  When a
> > > "Replace all" was requested of a string, s, with a
> > > string s1
> > >                that
> > > contained s, an infinite loop happened.  This has
> > >        
> > been
> >      
> > > fixed.
> > >
> > >            C.  "Balance
> > > Braces" under the "Find" submenu in the "Edit" menu
> > > did not
> > >                work
> > > if the close brace was the last character of the
> > >        
> > file.
> >      
> > > This
> > >                has
> > > been fixed.
> > >
> > >            D.  "Match
> > > Brace" under the "Find" submenu in the "Edit" menu
> > > selected
> > >                the
> > > section of code between the focused brace and its
> > >        
> > matching
> >      
> > >           
> > >      brace.  It now selects only the
> > > matching brace.
> > >
> > >            E.  Syntax
> > > highlighting settings could not be restored to
> > >        
> > factory
> >      
> > >           
> > >      defaults.  This has been fixed.
> > >            F.  When a
> > >        
> > line
> >      
> > > was selected by clicking on the line number, the
> > >           
> > >      selected line and the following line
> > >        
> > were
> >      
> > > both executed.  This
> > > has
> > >                been
> > > fixed.
> > >
> > >            G.  Under
> > > certain conditions and when auto-indentation was
> > >        
> > enabled,
> >      
> > > the
> > >           
> > >      Do-file Editor computed the wrong
> > > indentation length for the
> > > current
> > >                line
> > > based on the indentation length of the previous line.
> > > This has
> > >                been
> > > fixed.
> > >
> > > Perhaps the Do-FIle Editor (which as Martin indicates
> > >        
> > is a
> >      
> > > separate process
> > > under Windows) was imperfectly fixed...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kit Baum   |   Boston
> > >        
> > College
> >      
> > > Economics&  DIW Berlin   |
> > > http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> > >
> > >        
> >      
> > >        
> >     An
> >      
> > > Introduction to Stata Programming  |
> > > http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
> > >      An Introduction to Modern Econometrics
> > > Using Stata  |
> > > http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
> > >
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