Re: st: About empty dataset

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:22 PM 5/28/2004 -0700, Maoyong Fan wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
>         I noticed that the Stata program will automatically stop when the 
> dataset is empty after deleting the missing value and give out the wrong 
> information:  __0000001 not found.
>
>         In my program, I need to run many programs on the same dataset, 
> so I open the original dataset many times in a big program.  Every time I 
> drop some variables and observations, the whole program is stoped if one 
> of the dataset after selection is empty.
>
>         I wonder if there is some command which can force the program to 
> go on even if the dataset is empty in this subprogram after selection.
The -capture- or -confirm- commands, or the -nostop- option on the -run- 
and -do- commands might help you out.

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