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Re: st: -choke-
From
Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To
[email protected], "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: -choke-
Date
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:46:47 -0400
At 09:39 PM 4/12/2012, E Michael Foster wrote:
Whenever I change jobs (and that's not infrequently), my students
encounter a programming command that surprises them. It's my -choke- command.
I stick it in code to run part of a do file and stop execution at a
point in the code. It returns an error and the student(s) think
they've done something wrong.
I understand that I could submit part of a do-file by selecting it
within the Stata do-file editor. But I don't use it. I use ultraedit.
So I think it's time to define chock.ado.
program define choke
di "Mike says to stop!!!!"
qui stoprightnow
end
This doesn't quite work because I don't want anything other than
"Mike says to stop!!!" in the log.
I'd like to suppress the error message:
unrecognized command: stoprightnow
r(199);
yet, if I use -cap- execution proceeds.
Suggestions?
Couldn't you just have an -exit- command?
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