To clarify a little: there are two limits here.
The question is which bites; it will naturally be
the more restrictive one.
See -help limits-.
In Stata 9.2,
Small Intercooled Stata/SE|MP
length of string in string 244 244 244
expression
# of characters in a macro 8,681 67,784 1,081,511
It is not clear why Johannes was bitten here, unless he
is using some earlier version of Stata, but did not tell
us that.
Nick
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Richard Williams
> At 06:04 AM 4/21/2006, Maarten buis wrote:
> >There doesn't appear anything wrong with your
> >�foreach- command, however a local can contain
> >only a limited number of characters, and your
> >list of variables probably contains too many
> >characters. All extra characters are ignored,
> >so apparently the maximum was reached with
> >kzahl and was thus ignored. One way to prevent
> >that is to replace the line
>
> Good point. I hadn't thought of that - and my
> simulation had no problems - but another simple
> way around that is to not use the equals sign, e.g.
>
> local wave "l m n o p q r s t u"
> local vars "netto pbleib pbbil01 pbbil02 pbbil03
> phrf famstd stell pnat nace psbil hhgr eigen kzahl"
>
> You can get a lot more characters into a local
> macro when you avoid the equals sign.
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