Hi Kit,
> In this case a useful technique (which is easily disabled when you
> get tired of seeing it) is just to put a line
>
> display "Now reading `bestand'"
>
> just before the insheet, which would make it obvious which
> file it is
> processing (if any error conditions occur within that file, for
> instance) but would also show you that in fact the local had
> not been
> given a value.
Ok, that is a way to see what is happening.
> It is true that Stata does not make it easy to determine which line
> is giving you grief in a loop context, but as Austin suggests good
> old-fashioned debugging techniques work well. Putting output lines
> into the do-file and just commenting them out when you no
> longer need
> them is one of those techniques.
Indeed, not easy at all. But your help will make it a bit easier. Thanks a
lot.
Best regards,
-Hendri.
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