Lee, Nick, Antoine -
That's exactly the problem - the "equals" sign.
Now that you guys mention it, I recall a discussion on this some time ago.
Thanks to all of you!
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Antoine Terracol [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: posting a long list
Hello,
I've been trapped by the "80 chars limit" many times before learning the
trick.
You must append each name to the existing macro without the "=" sign:
local list ""
local i=1
while `i'<=100 {
local list "`list' `i'" <<< no "=" sign
local i=`i'+1
}
di "`list'"
Hope this helps,
Antoine
FEIVESON, ALAN H. (AL) (JSC-SD) (NASA) wrote:
>Hello - I'm trying to use -postfile- to post a long list of names stored in
>a macro (I tried both local and global). When I try to build this macro by
>appending each name, one at a time, it refuses to exceed 80 characters in
>length.
>
>1. Is there a way to make a macro longer than 80 characters?
>
>2. Is there a way to use postfile to get around this, say by repeated
>postfile commands?
>
>Thanks
>
>Al Feiveson
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