--- Mentzakis, Emmanouil wrote:
> I have an example below of what is happening. The first global $xvar is
> working but when I increase its size, as in global $var2 it does not
> work properly anymore.
> ---------Begin example----------
<snip>
> # delimit ;
> global xvar="dmpg2 dmpg3 dmpg4 dmpg5 dmpg6 dmpg7 dmpg8 dmpg9 dmpg10
> dmpg11 dmpg12
> dmpg13 dmpg14 dmpg15 dmpg16 dmpg17 dmpg18 dmpg19 dmpg20 dmpg2";
> # delimit cr;
<snip>
> # delimit ;
> global xvar2="dmpg2 dmpg3 dmpg4 dmpg5 dmpg6 dmpg7 dmpg8 dmpg9 dmpg10
> dmpg11 dmpg12
> dmpg13 dmpg14 dmpg15 dmpg16 dmpg17 dmpg18 dmpg19 dmpg20 dmpg21 dtrunk2
> dtrunk3 dtrunk4
> dtrunk5 dtrunk6 dtrunk7 dtrunk8 dtrunk9 dtrunk10 dtrunk11 dtrunk12
> dtrunk13 dtrunk14 dtrunk15
> dtrunk16 dtrunk17 dtrunk18";
> # delimit cr;
The trick is to remove the equal sign, so type:
global xvar2 "dmpg2 dmpg3 ...
instead of :
global xvar2 = "dmpg2 dmpg3 ...
if you leave out the equal sign Stata won't evaluate whatever comes next,
and as a result it won't hit the maximum number of characters a string
may contain (which was the problem you were running in to).
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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