st: capture blocks

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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My question is whether there is a way to force Stata to run trough a 
do-file without aborting when there is an error. I know that I can use 
-capture- for this. Example:

sysuse auto, clear
cap noisily rename rep76 whatever
cap noisily rename rep77 foo
cap noisily rename rep78 bar

I was hoping / expecting that -capture- with {} would let me do this on 
a whole block of commands. Example:

sysuse auto, clear
capture noisily {
   rename rep76 whatever
   rename rep77 foo
   rename rep78 bar
}

However, this will abort after the first line (which contains an error). 
This behavior is documented in the manual: "If any of the commands in 
the capture block fail, the subsequent commands in the block are 
aborted" ([P], Release 9, p. 21)

So, is there a way to run a *block* of commands without having to put 
the -capture- in front of each command?

Stata 9, Win XP.

Thank you very much!
Philipp

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