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AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
Date
Sat, 15 May 2010 14:24:16 +0200
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All those who have encountered this "crash" should describe their hardware
and software, OS, etc. in greater detail. I bet tech support does want to
know about a "crash", but from Hewan`s description, it sounded more like an
endless loop rather than a "crash". His term "do-file crash" does not convey
much to me, to be honest. How do those who have witnessed this event end the
endless replacement cycle?
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: Re: st: replace-all can crash do-file
I have encountered this problem as well. It will crash STATA 11.
julie
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Hewan Belay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I couldn't find any reference to this issue in the archives, though I am
sure it must have already afflicted many.
>
> It appears that the find-and-replace option in the Stata 11 do-file
handles "replace all" (e.g. when you do CTRL+H) in a way that can crash the
do-file--and lead to exasperating loss of data if one hasn't saved the file
in some while. It seems that when using "replace all", for example when
replacing all "hh" with "hh_id", it never stops replacing, thus creating
hh_id, then hh_id_id, etc., leading to a do-file freeze then crash. If not
clear what I mean, give it a try! Even Notepad is more intelligent and only
searches once through the document when using "replace all".
>
> I try to be careful about using "replace all" in stata (e.g. in the above
example, replacing all "hh" with "house_id" would not cause a crash), but
it's easy to forget that it won't stop looping, and face an unpleasant
do-file crash. Is there any setting I can change to avoid this behaviour in
do-files?
>
> Thanks,
> Hewan
>
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