That's right. You cannot have a label that long. So:
. tostring var, g(var2)
var cannot be converted reversibly; no generate
. tostring var, g(var2) force
var2 generated as str11
var2 was forced to string; some loss of information
Perhaps -mvdecode- would be the way to go. So:
mvdecode var, mv(999999999999)
then, to use codebook or whatever,
mvencode var, mv(999999999999)
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