Hi,
some time ago I reported on statalist that the
-:word of- extended macro function appears to
truncate long words to 503 characters. See:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-11/msg00643.html
This limit of the -:word of- function causes a
problem in -estout-. The problem has been
reported by Radu Ban, see
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-11/msg00620.html
And my reply:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-11/msg00644.html
-estout- may break if you try to create a table of
a *large* number of stored estimates (say 100 or
more). (-estout- uses local macros to build a
logical representation of the basic structure of
the table. If the table rows are getting very long,
-estout- may hit the 503 character limit of the
-:word of- function.)
Here is what Stata Technical Support had to say
about the problem:
"It turns out that the -:word of- extended macro
function pulls 'tokens' off of the string as words,
and Stata's internal parser has a limit of 503
characters for a 'token'. StataCorp is looking into
changing the -:word of- extended macro function to
not be affected by this limit."
-estout- will be fixed once the -:word of- extended
macro function is changed.
ben
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