Re: st: RE: Figure out in which do-file an error occurred

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

Hello,
the -forval- would not do the job for two reasons.

1. I call various "sub-sub-dofiles" from within the sub-dofiles.
2. (and more important) I was too simplistic in my description of
   my problem. My sub-dofiles are actucally not called like that.
   They have some meaningful names and before I call them I put
   a couple of commentary lines with a brief description of them.
   Thus looping over them would not work out.

Best
Oliver


Am 07.03.2012 20:13, schrieb Nick Cox:
> You don't need to edit each file. You can change your master file to
>
> forval i = 1/5 {
>          di "beginning file `i'"
>          do sub-dofile-`i'
> }
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Brendan Halpin<brendan.halpin@ul.ie>  wrote:
> > A simple but tedious strategy would be to put a line like this
> >
> > -di "Beginning filename.do"-
> >
> > at the start of each do-file.
> >
> > If you run the master file, it will stop at the first error and you can
> > backtrack to the most recent "Beginning" statement.
> >
> > I cope with large projects by using "make", a utility which comes with
> > Unix systems. Alternatively, you could use a script file (something.bat
> > in Windows, a shell-script file in Unix-like systems). This involves
> > using Stata in batch mode. However, since Stata batch jobs tell the
> > operating system they have completed successfully even if there has been
> > a Stata error, these script files will continue regardless even when
> > an error occurs in an earlier do-file. I wrap the call to Stata in a
> > script file which searches the log file for errors. I describe the
> > system in more detail at
> > http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/wordpress/?p=122
> >
> > Brendan
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