Getting rid of the equal sign worked. I knew I was hitting the limit of the string but didn't understand why.
Thank you both, Michael and Martin. I checked out ds, and it is a great command.
Weijang
>>> "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]> 5/15/2008 5:22 PM >>>
Generally misleading advice.
The 244 characters limit is only if the string is evaluated using an equals sign
or stored as a variable. In this specific case, the string is in a local macro
and just needs to be handled without any equals signs.
M Blasnik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: st: RE: r(varlist) after command lookfor
> 244 is the magic number for lengths in Stata... Do you know -ds-? It is
> undocumented but can be extremely useful in such situations...
>
> Martin Weiss
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