Thanks for all replies. I used -global- and it works nicely.
Eamonn
>>> [email protected] 05 March 2007 14:29:27 >>>
Extending Sergiy's solution, the branching becomes implicit if the
global-flag directly contains the command.
e.g. replace all -browse- commands with $cond_browse and then define
global cond_browse = "browse"
or
global cond_browse = "*" (to comment out anything else on the line)
at the start of each file or in the first file called if it is a
nested
series of files.
Richard Atkins
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
>>> "Sergiy Radyakin" <[email protected]> 05/03/2007 14:16
>>>
You can replace -browse- by a call of a new command like
-conditional_browse-
Define it as an ado-file, or in the same file.
Inside you can branch depending, say on a value of a certain global
FLAG-variable defined at the beginning of your program or changed
depending
on iterations, etc.
Regards,
Sergiy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eamonn O'Brien" <Eamonn.O'[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: st: Suppress -browse- when using -do- to execute
commandsfrom
afile
> Thanks for the suggestion Svend, however I do not want to duplicate
my
> data management program so that I have one version with -browse -
and
> the other -*browse-. It is important for me to be able to -browse-
for
> the first application of the code, but it is annoying and slower (as
I
> have to close the Data Editor each time) if I must -browse- when
using
> it for the second application.
>
>>>> [email protected] 05 March 2007 13:33:23 >>>
> Eamonn O'Brien wrote:
>
> I have a large Stata data management program that is interspersed
with
> -browse- so I can get a feel for the data as the program is running.
I
> now want to execute the program using -quietly- & -do- followed by
> code
> to capture statistics for another purpose. However with this
> application
> I no longer wish to -browse- the data as the program runs. Therefore
I
> was wondering is there a way to suppress -browse- in this instance?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I can think of no other way than modifying the do-file, by replacing
> -browse- with the comment -* browse-. In the do-file editor, use
> Ctrl-H to search and replace.
>
> Svend
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