Re: st: alternative to do with nostop option

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

look up the -capture- command

Rich

kokootchke wrote:
> Hello, guys. I don't have this problem right now but have always wanted to ask this. Is there a way to tell Stata to continue running a do file even if *SOME* of the commands would give an "error"? 
> I know that in general I could use -do myfile, nostop- and then Stata won't stop at all if it finds an error. But I don't like this because I'd actually like it to stop if there's an actual error... but if I say something like -drop x- and x doesn't exist, I don't really think of it as an error, so I'd like it to keep going ONLY IN THIS CASE.
>
> Is there something that would make this happen? Or am I asking for too much here?
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Adrian
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