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Re: st: How to prevent truncated string in macro expression


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to prevent truncated string in macro expression
Date   Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:13:27 +0100 (BST)

--- "Grealy, Patrick J" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having trouble with the limit for string lengths in expressions
> and have not been able to find the solution. I'm sure I've seen it
> somewhere and suspect it involves using the colon(:) instead of
> equals(=) method.

Occationally it helps to leave out the equal sign, this prevents Stata
from interpreting the statement and that can help.
HTH,
Maarten


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