Re: st: Re: Continuing a loop inspite of errors

[Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Hi,
maybe another way of doing it would be

describe xxx*, varlist

foreach var of varlist r(varlist) {
	sum `x'
}

Best
Oliver

Am 25.05.2011 11:00, schrieb Narahari H.S.:
> Some research got me the solution. Code is below
>
> forvalues i=10/90{
> capture noisily : sum xxx`i'
> if _rc==111{
> continue
> }
> }
>
> Warm Regards
> Hari
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 25/5/11, Narahari H.S.<naraharihs@yahoo.co.in>  wrote:
>
> > From: Narahari H.S.<naraharihs@yahoo.co.in>
> > Subject: Continuing a loop inspite of errors
> > To: "statalist"<statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> > Date: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011, 12:26 PM
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have to run a loop on a set of variables which are named
> > like xxx10, xxx11,xxx13,xxx17.....xxx90. There is no set
> > pattern in the number suffix of the variable name but the
> > minimum suffix is 10 and max is 90.
> >
> > I cant use -forvalues- as the suffixes are not continuous
> > and they do not have a fixed difference. One way to do it is
> > to use -foreach- but I have to manually enter all the
> > variable names and thats quite cumbersome.
> >
> > I could use -forvalues- if there was a command to continue
> > the loop inspite of an error i.e. if I use -forvalues
> > i=10(1)90{- , the looping is stopped when i is set to 12 as
> > xxx12 is not present.
> >
> > Could you please tell me if theres a command for continuing
> > the loop inspite of errors or any other technique to do
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks in advace
> > Hari
>
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