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Re: st: long macro
It looks to me like you are entering a "string" into the local macro
and strings in Stata are limited to 244 characters. You may to try
this:
local i=1
local codelist
while `i'<= _N {
local codelist `codelist' `=icd10code[`i']'
local ++i
}
Seb
On 2/22/06, Dedman, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I was trying to create a macro that contained a long list of (icd10) codes that are stored in a temporary dataset. There are 290 obs and icdcode is str4 variable, so I reasoned that thereshould not be any problem storing this many characters in a macro. Intercooled stata has a limit of around 68000 characters in a macro, so I was surprised to find that the that the code works fine until "`codelist'" reaches 244 characters in length. After that it fails to grow in subsequent iterations.
>
> My code looks like this:
> <snip>
> version 9
> local i=1
> local codelist
> while `i'<= _N {
> local codelist = "`codelist'" + " " + icd10code[`i']
> local ++i
> }
> <snip>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Dan Dedman
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