. whelp limits
will show you that
Small Intercooled Stata/SE
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# of characters in a macro 8,681 67,784 1,081,511
But in order to keep the max length of a string from limiting you, you need to
drop the equals sign.
Try:
. local w "pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural pctold charscore ipdays opdays tot_hos oppaid totalpaid"
Dan Blanchette
Carolina Population Center UNC-CH
>
> How many characters can a local or a global store? I need to store a variable list in a macro and it is being truncated after the 12 character. Changing from local to global is not of any help nor is using double quotes (have tried). Can anyone give me some advice on how to handle this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Code:
>
> . local w = "pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural pctold charscore ipdays opdays tot_hos oppaid totalpaid"
> . local z: word count `w'
> . display `z'
> 12
> . display "`w'"
> pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural pctold charscore ipdays op
>
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