. local w = "pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural
pctold charscore ipdays opdays tot_hos oppaid totalpaid"
tells Stata to evaluate right-hand side and store it in w. Stata's
expression parser however is limited to handling strings of 80 characters
in Intercooled Stata. This is why your string was truncated. You should use
instead
. local w "pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural
pctold charscore ipdays opdays tot_hos oppaid totalpaid"
which simply copies your string to w. Copying is limited by the maximum
lenght of a macro which is 67,784 characters, plenty enough for most
purposes.
You can refer to [U] 21.3.4 Macros and expressions.
Sergey
"F. Michael Kunz"
<[email protected]> To: [email protected]
Sent by: cc:
owner-statalist@hsphsun2. Subject: st: Maximum length of macros
harvard.edu
06/11/2004 11:19 AM
Please respond to
statalist
Dear Statalisters:
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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