I am trying to writre formatted text output from a Stata data file and
wrote a program based on the examples in the Stat manual and the UCLA
Web site (http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/outform.htm).
Some of the code is shown below. I am getting an error "invalid
numlist has too many elements r(123)". I have 17,915 observations.
If I limit my dataset to a smaller number of observations (using drop
or keep) to, say 1,000, or hardwire a smaller number, the program
sucessfully writes out the data.
After searching the documentation I cannot find a limit to the number
stored in numlist. Is there such a limit? If so, can it be
increased?
TIA,
Alan
*** Stata Code Follows ***
quietly count;
local l = r(N);
foreach i of numlist 1/`l'{;
file write temp
_col(1) %5.0f (frm_id1[`i'])
_col(8) %5.0f (co_id1[`i'])
_col(14) %9.1f (est_rnd_amt_fund[`i'])
_newline;
};
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