RE: st: exact row in which error occurs

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I can see why you want this.  

Naturally, if Stata did start implementing "error on line ... of ..." then sometimes it might be useful and other times it could just be ignored. 

My main point is factual: Stata doesn't work that way.

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Ivica Rubil
Sent: 24 November 2011 12:40
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: exact row in which error occurs

I agree. But, it would still be useful that Stata can detect the exact
line where an error occurs in cases where one has a code in which no
other .do file is called.

ivica

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 24. studeni 2011 12:28
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: exact row in which error occurs

Stata doesn't work in this way, partly because do-files can and
usually do call other do-files, ado-files, commands, functions, etc.,
and a row number -- presumably meaning file line number -- would not
have very much meaning in many instances, and/or would refer to a line
in code that is proprietary and so hidden from you.

-set trace- leads to ways of detecting where errors occur. Otherwise
the difference between -do- and -run- is important here.

Nick

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ivica Rubil <irubil@eizg.hr> wrote:

> does anybody of you know if there is a way to get Stata give me the
the
> exact row number where an error occurs in a do file? I'm surprised
that
> Stata -- way too "smart" a program -- does not give it regularly,
> included in error messages.

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