Friedrich Huebler ([email protected]) asked about Stata 9 long
labels and their treatment by Stata 8:
> Does Stata 8 drop long value labels completely or are they truncated
> at 80 or 244 characters?
Stata 8 already was set up to deal with this problem because of the
difference in maximum value label length between Intercooled Stata 8
(80) and Stata/SE 8 (244). If Stata 8 encounters a label with any
mapping greater than its maximum length, it does not load that label:
. use myfile
value label mylab contains labels longer than 244 characters
The maximum length of strings in this version of Stata is 244. The value
label mentioned was not loaded.
Alan
([email protected])
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