Thanks Austin, this works. I should have spotted that in the extended
functions. - Pat G.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin
Nichols
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: How to prevent truncated string in macro expression
Patrick--
. local temp4 : subinstr loc varlist " " ",", all
see -help extended_fcn- for details.
On 7/11/06, Grealy, Patrick J <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 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.
> Here's the relevant section of code from my .ado file for a program
> that, among other things, attempts to count the number of missings for
> any of the input variables:
>
> local temp4=subinstr("`varlist'"," ",",",.)
> quietly count if missing(`temp4') & `touse'
>>>>>>>>> snip-snip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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