Comments log file inside foreach

[joan marc]

Dear all,

I am running this code, which creates different log files for each "Centro", each one tabulating some tables.

Everything works well except for the comments I need to put in between (starts with *). Does anybody know why they do NOT appear in the log file? The lines on the commands do not appear either but I don't mind about them

Thank you in advance.

Joan


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foreach centro in 35 36 38 {
preserve
keep if var21==`centro'
log using "xxxxxxxxxxxxx\\`centro'.log", replace
* Comment on this line
di NombreCentro
foreach y of global tablas {
tab `y' , sort
}
log close
}

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[Nick Cox]

Think of it this way. Many programs contain comments, but when you run those programs do you ever see the comments?

To get a display of text, use display of text.

[joan marc]

Hi Nick, thanks for helping but I still can't manage. Where should I use display?

[Nick Cox]

di "* Comment on this line" 

[joan marc]

Thanks Nick. And do you know how NOT to display the commands, as in programs, in a normal log file, and only display lines like this?
di "* Comment on this line"

[Nick Cox]

I don't see the question here. If you don't want to see a line, don't display it?

[joan marc]

In the case it is not a program, like a normal log file, the commands are displayed by default

[Nick Cox]

Do you know about run ?

[joan marc]

I didn't so just tried. Run executes without displaying neither the commands nor the results. I am wrong? I want to see only the results and anything I write in dith di ".....", as if it was inside a program, as you just explained in #2 . I don't know if I am clear

[Rich Goldstein]

look at the help file for quietly and noisily (e.g., "h noisily") and then put "noi" in front of lines you want to see the results of

[joan marc]

This would not display the results: what I want to avoid is the commands.

I want to see the results in the log file without the commands, as if it was a program (#2)

[Friedrich Huebler]

See http://www.stata.com/statalist/archi.../msg00105.html.