st: RE: Blinking message when using _rc

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

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If you want to see the error message w/o having to redo the whole thing
again and again, just type "!_rc" in Windows' command prompt, outside of
Stata. 

Strangely, the ambiguous nature of "!" as an abbreviation for a Stata
command and for comparison purposes has never bit me, nor have I seen any
previous complaints on the list...



HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Duha Altindag
Sent: Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010 23:13
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Blinking message when using _rc

Greetings,

I'm running the program below:

***start***
local M "A B C"
foreach m in `M' {

capture confirm variable `m'_X
!_rc {
quietly count if missing(`m'_X)
if  r(N)==_N{
drop `m'_X
display "`m'_X" " dropped"
}
}

capture confirm variable `m'_X
if !_rc {
replace `m'_X="1" if `m'_X=="P"
}
}
***end***

It does the job that I need. But while it is running, I see a black
windows window for just a moment each (literally), that gives me a
message that reads like:
"!_rc { is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file."
Because the program above runs many times, I see that window multiple
times for a moment, like blinking. I can hardly read it the moment I
see it, but I could write it down after running the code many times.
Does anyone have an idea of what that means?

Thanks in advance

Duha
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