st: Re: displaying input lines while executing loops

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:33 AM,Laszlo wrote:

> As a diligent follower of Kit Baum's advice (and many others' on this
> list), I use loops all the time, not to code up analogous things
> twice. But Stata just reporting barebones output does not help with
> this. E.g. when I am merging in many-many files (over data sources and
> over years), it is hard to keep track of the reports of the merges.
> 
> Exactly because I have much code in loops, I would not edit the
> commands (in those loops) for this purpose. But is there another way?

Presuming you are running a loop over i, nothing stops you from something like

di as err _n "Now merging file `i'" _n

within the loop.  That's not an input line, but you can put anything you want to see in the display statement (including a copy of the input line).

Kit 


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