Artyom Durnev <[email protected]> asked,
> I need to download a string variable which is 120 characters long. STATA
> only allows me to have 80 characters. The rest of the characters get
> truncated. Is it possible to download really long strings?
You have two choices. The first is to live with the 80-character limit
and to read the 120 character string into two variables. The other is
to upgrade to Stata/SE, which allows string variables to be up to 244
characters long.
-- Bill
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