st: RE: AW: the convenient way to exclude part of the do file from running

[Rodolphe Desbordes <rodolphe.desbordes@strath.ac.uk>]

A much less elegant way would be to use -exit-.

Rodolphe

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" Therefore, I would like to find if there is any better way to exclude some part of the commands from running."



For huge do-files, highlighting the relevant lines is not an option, but you can have a main do-file, and call sub-do-files from there. This has the side effect that it forces you to think about logical chunks of your problem that could be allocated into one of those sub-do-files...



HTH
Martin


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Hi all,

I was wondering if there is any more convenient way to exclude some part of the do file from running in the process of writing and revising a do file.

For example, I am working on a do file with 1000 lines of commands, in which  I would like to exclude  the bottom 100 lines from running  and checking.  I have not decided if I should permanently delete the 100 lines from this do file or not.

Currently what I deal with this is just using mouse to select the parts that I want to check and run. When I have to run a couple of times, this using-mouse-to-select becomes tedious. Another way is to add * or /* before those excluded lines. I do not like this way since when finally I want to include these commands, I have to delete those symbols. Therefore, I would like to find if there is any better way to exclude some part of the commands from running.

Thanks for your help!

Mandy
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