Re: st: Stepping through do file

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

see help, or manual, for -pause-

Rich

Buzz Burhans wrote:
> Is there a way to step through a do file other than highlighting a line in
> the do file editor and running the selected lines?
>
> I need to debug a set of do files.  I need to find places where my code is
> changing the data improperly - the files run ok, so -set trace on- does not
> help the error trapping in this case.
>
> I run repeated selections by highlighting them in the do file editor. If
> previous lines created a -tempfile- or local macro, it no longer exists when
> I run later set of lines. For instance, if I select lines 1-10 and run them,
> and a -tempfile- is created in those lines, when I later try to run lines
> further in the do file that use the -tempfile-, the -tempfile- no longer
> exists.
>
> It would be really nice to step through a do file and keep it active during
> the process, so local macros and tempfiles continued to be available in the
> later lines.  
> I am using Intercooled Stata 9.2; moving to 10 but haven't loaded it yet.
> Running on Win XP. 
> Buzz Burhans, Ph.D.
>
> Dairy-Tech Group
>
> Twin Falls, ID
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>
> Email: buzzb3@verizon.net
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