At 08:07 PM 12/2/2003 +0000, you wrote:
Turn on the trace at the previous line!
The problem arose for me in a situation where there were a series of
-foreach- and/or forvalues loops, some nested. In order to turn on trace at
the "previous line" I had to find where the crash occurred. So I had many
(10?) minutes of watching traces display on the screen before the error was
shown. If there were an indication of the failure line, I could then go to
the "previous line" and save much time.
As the last trace could presumably be kept in memory,
this does sound possible, except that
I guess that the trace would have to
be displayed after a crash (not a problem,
in my view).
So you could have
. set lasttrace on
meaning that you get a more detailed
report on a crash.
Is this possible?
I don't know, but perhaps Stata has an undocumented command to allow one to
come up with this information?
Fred
Nick
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Fred Wolfe
> High on my wish list for
> Stata is the
> ability to have a program that produce an error optionally
> display the line
> or line # where the program fails or to turn on trace at
> the previous line.
>
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