st: Re: alternative to do with nostop option

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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HTH
Martin
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: st: alternative to do with nostop option



> 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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