Daniel Grochulski <[email protected]> and
Michael Blasnik <[email protected]>
reported a problem importing string variables in -odbc-:
> my Stata consistently adds a 127 blank characters pad to any
> downloaded string variable, so i.e. 20 characters string is loaded and
> reported as having 147 characters (str147).
Answer:
This has been fixed and will be in the next exectuable update.
We have sent Daniel and Michael a not-yet certified copy of the update to
solve their problems. Once it is certified we will release an official update
later this week.
The issue arose due to a change in the way string types were stored between
Stata 7 and Stata 8.
Using -compress- will work in removing the padding as long as the string has not
already exceeded the maximum string length for your version of Stata.
Kevin Turner
[email protected]
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