Re: st: continuing a loop from after it encounters an error

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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I'm still not clear on what the "objects" are.  You mention that are "commands" and then you -display- them. Also, when I run your code, I don't get the r(199) error about it being an unrecognized command -- so there's something important missing from your example.

Take a look at -help confirm- and decide which objects you are trying to confirm exist. 
If these are variables you can:

**************************!
clear
 set obs 10
 g object1 = 1
 g object3 = 3
 
****
foreach i in object1 object2 object3 {
cap confirm variable `i'
   if !_rc { 	            
	display `i'
	}
}
**************************!

If these are commands, you can also use -which- and -capture- to check to see if they are installed:
**************************!
clear
foreach i in  describe object1 object3 list  {
	cap which `i'
	if _rc continue
}
**************************!

- Eric
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On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Nick Mosely wrote:

> Hello _all,
> 
> I've built a loop that encounters an error periodically due to the
> fact that stata can't find one of the objects specified in the list. I
> don't mind the error, but I would like stata to skip objects in list
> that encounter the error and continue to the next iteration of the
> loop, rather than breaking the loop. I've tried the continue command,
> but am not sure that is what it's meant for.
> 
> Here is a simplified version of the code. In this example, assume that
> objects1 and object3 are valid commands but object2 is not:
> 
> foreach i in object1 object2 object3 {
> display `i'
> continue
> }
>> object1
>> unrecognized command:  object2
>> r(199);
> 
> What can I do get the code to continue running through object3?
> 
> Thanks,
> `Nick Mosely'
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