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Re: st: alternative to do with nostop option
Your question implies that you regard the errors that might arise as
(say) serious and less serious. Fair enough, but see the problem from
Stata's point of view: How is it supposed to tell which is which?
You must tell it. So, there is not a solution at the level of -do-, as
that would pass to Stata the responsibility of deciding, which is really
yours.
Rather, you can specify which is which by using -capture- to eat less
serious errors.
Nick
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kokootchke wrote:
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?
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