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Re: st: RE: Figure out in which do-file an error occurred


From   Oliver Jones <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Figure out in which do-file an error occurred
Date   Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:21:47 +0100

Hello,
the -forval- would not do the job for two reasons.

1. I call various "sub-sub-dofiles" from within the sub-dofiles.
2. (and more important) I was too simplistic in my description of
   my problem. My sub-dofiles are actucally not called like that.
   They have some meaningful names and before I call them I put
   a couple of commentary lines with a brief description of them.
   Thus looping over them would not work out.

Best
Oliver


Am 07.03.2012 20:13, schrieb Nick Cox:
You don't need to edit each file. You can change your master file to

forval i = 1/5 {
         di "beginning file `i'"
         do sub-dofile-`i'
}

Nick

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Brendan Halpin<[email protected]>  wrote:
A simple but tedious strategy would be to put a line like this

-di "Beginning filename.do"-

at the start of each do-file.

If you run the master file, it will stop at the first error and you can
backtrack to the most recent "Beginning" statement.

I cope with large projects by using "make", a utility which comes with
Unix systems. Alternatively, you could use a script file (something.bat
in Windows, a shell-script file in Unix-like systems). This involves
using Stata in batch mode. However, since Stata batch jobs tell the
operating system they have completed successfully even if there has been
a Stata error, these script files will continue regardless even when
an error occurs in an earlier do-file. I wrap the call to Stata in a
script file which searches the log file for errors. I describe the
system in more detail at
http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/wordpress/?p=122

Brendan
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