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Re: st: -args- how to flag when missing or too many arguments


From   John Antonakis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: -args- how to flag when missing or too many arguments
Date   Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:14:06 +0100

Thanks, Austin.

This works too, except for when w > 4; it does not display the error. The program just ignores any arguments beyond 4 arguments (as is the default in Stata).

Best,
J.

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On 21.03.2013 22:54, Austin Nichols wrote:
John Antonakis <[email protected]>:
You might also want to step through various conditions and then issue
a more informative error message at the end, e.g. consider adapting
this approach:

cap prog drop john
prog john, rclass
  version 12
  loc err 0
  args no_vars df N chi
  loc w: word count `no_vars' `df' `N' `chi'
  if `w'>4 {
   loc err 1
   di in red "More than 4 arguments given"
   }
  foreach v in no_vars df N chi {
   cap confirm integer number `=``v'''
   if _rc!=0 {
    loc err 1
    di in red "Arguments must be integers."
    }
   else if ``v''<0 {
    loc err 1
    di in red "Arguments must be positive integers."
    }
   }
  if `err'==1 {
   di in red "Please enter data after the command" _c
   di in red " john as follows: vars df N chi"
   exit 198
   }
end

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:49 PM, daniel klein <[email protected]> wrote:
John,

I think I would address this with something like this

cap pr drop john
pr john
         vers 12.1

         args a b c d
         if !inrange(`: word count `0'', 1, 4) {
                 di as err "Please enter data after " ///
                 "the command john as follows: vars df N chi"
                 e 198
         }
         numlist "`0'" ,int r(>0)

end

Best
Daniel
--
Hi:

I am writing a program and would like Stata to return an error if an
argument is missing or there are too many of them.


For example, if an argument is not an integer, the below will return an error:


   program define john, rclass
   version 12
   args no_vars df N chi

   if `no_vars'<0 | `df'<0 | `N'<0 | `chi'<0 {
   di in red "You have to use integers."
   exit 498
   }
end

Now, how do I make Stata display:

di in red "Please enter data after the command john as follows: vars df N chi"


.....in cases where (a) there is a missing value (i.e., the user
missed putting 4 numbers) and (b) if the user provides too many
numbers (i.e., 5 instead of 4).
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