RE: st: Tracing loops

[Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu>]

Billy,

Thanks for your response.  I already looked into -set tracedepth #-.  Intuitively, I would have assumed that a tracedepth of 1 would do what I want, but that just means it will go one level deep into the Stata ado-files instead of going farther down.  Specifying a tracedepth of 0 results in an error.  Am I missing something?

Here is a way to test:

. sysuse auto, clear
. set tracedepth 1
. set trace on
. foreach var of varlist * {
.  codebook `var'
. }
. set trace off

Thanks,
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of William Buchanan
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:09 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Tracing loops

See -help set tracedepth-.  It might take a while, but you should be able to set things to either exactly what you want, or at least get very close.

HTH,
Billy

On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu> wrote:

> Dear Statalist colleagues,
> 
> Is there any way, as of Stata 12, to trace the execution of a -foreach- loop without Stata also tracing any ado-file based commands within the loop? I saw a post on this from 2009 and the only solution then was to save the trace to a log.  This seems like a tedious and time consuming way to simply find out where an error occurred, follow the execution progress of a loop, and/or see what output goes with what commands.
> 
> Is there anything new in Stata 13 that addresses this?
> 
> Is there any conceivable way to program this some other way?  Is this even a concern for anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> 
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