Stata type mismatch, and no report of line number where error happened
<p>I googled about "type mismatch", and it seems the errors mostly come from "replace"</p>

<p>Indeed I am doing some replacing but I can't see where that error comes from.</p>

<pre><code>generate price=0.0
replace price=105.17 if year==2014

gen crisis=1 if year==2008 | year==2009
replace crisis=0 if year&lt;2008 | year&gt;2009

gen postcrisis=1 if year&gt;2008
replace postcrisis=0 if year&lt;=2008
</code></pre>

<p>Also, Stata isn't displaying at which line the error happened. This is very bad for debugging. How can I make it?</p>

<p>======================================</p>

<p>The error was coming from </p>

<pre><code>generate realsales=sales/price
</code></pre>

<p>To see what is going wrong, I did the following.</p>

<pre><code>. describe sales price

              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable
&gt;  label
------------------------------------------------------
sales           str8    %9s                   
price           float   %9.0g         
</code></pre>

<p>And destring didn't work.</p>

<pre><code>. destring sales, replace
sales contains nonnumeric characters; no replace
</code></pre>

<p>Also, dataex didn't work.</p>

<pre><code>. dataex
input statement exceeds linesize limit. Try specifying fewer variables
</code></pre>

<p>And still, when Stata stops with an error, it never tells me which line is causing the error. It simply shows me the following lines.</p>

<pre><code>112. 
. }

(146 vars, 10748 obs)
type mismatch
r(109);

end of do-file

r(109);
</code></pre>

<p>This is very inconvenient for debugging. Is it really like this? Is there any way to make Stata display the error line?</p>