Re: st: skipping out of and restarting a loop if an error occurs

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I agree with Ryan's advice. You could write

if _rc != 0 continue

if you so wished.

Nick

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Ryan Kessler
<ryan.kessler.stata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> To skip the rest of the loop's commands you can nest them within an if
> _rc == 0 statement. For example:
>
> foreach c in `county' {
>       forval y=2002/2011 {
>            capture noisily insheet using
> "B:/nydata/`c'_`y'_parcel.txt", tab names clear
>            if _rc == 0 {
>                 // Additional commands
>            }
>       }
> }
>
> Best,
>
> Ryan
>
>> foreach c in `county' {
>>         foreach y in `year' {
>>         capture noisily insheet using "B:/nydata/`c'_`y'_parcel.txt", tab
>> names clear
>>         save "`newparcel'", replace
>>         use "`combinedyr'"
>>         append using `newparcel'
>>         save "`combinedyr'", replace
>>         }
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Ben Hoen <bhoen@lbl.gov> wrote:
>> I am trying to loop through txt files of New York counties (9 of them) and
>> years (2000-2012) for which some year/county combinations are missing.  For
>> each file I am using insheet and then, once loaded I perform some additional
>> commands and the append it with the previously loaded file.
>>
>> The files are named using their respective year county, e.g, "<county
>> name>_<year>_parcel.txt"
>>
>> I have been able to use .capture noisily to skip the unsuccessful .insheet
>> command, but have not been able to find a way to skip the rest of the loop's
>> commands and start at the top.  (I thought it might involve the "_rc" stored
>> value and "continue" ... but was not able to figure out how to do that)
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> Here is some sample code:
>>
>> ==============================================================
>> clear all
>> tempfile newparcel combinedyr combinedco
>> g testvar=. //to create some data to initially store
>> save "`combinedco'"
>> save "`combinedyr'"
>>
>> local year "2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011"
>> local county "allegany clinton erie franklin madison oneida steuben wyoming
>> yates"
>>
>> foreach c in `county' {
>>         foreach y in `year' {
>>         capture noisily insheet using "B:/nydata/`c'_`y'_parcel.txt", tab
>> names clear
>>         save "`newparcel'", replace
>>         use "`combinedyr'"
>>         append using `newparcel'
>>         save "`combinedyr'", replace
>>         }
>>
>> duplicates drop, force
>> save "`combinedyr'",replace
>> use "`combinedco'"
>> append using "`combinedyr'"
>> save "`combinedco'", replace
>> drop _all
>> g testvar=. //to create some data to initially store
>> save "`combinedyr'", replace
>> }
>>
>>
>> use "`combinedco'"
>> drop testvar
>> save allparcels.dta, replace
>>
>> ===============================================================
>> Ben Hoen
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>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
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