Hope I am being helpful to this thread, but has anybody mentioned Mata`s
capabilities in the area of string processing? I seem to remember from our
Mata course in Milan that there are helpful tools in there. Kit mentioned in
San Francisco that -adoupdate- uses it a lot internally for such purposes...
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Elliott" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: saving local macros
One needs to be precise when discussing string limits in Stata because
they differ depending on context.
For macros, character limits are not exceeded except in unusual
circumstances ( see Stata's help for limits :
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?limits )
There is a 244 character limit for string variables and string
expressions which is restrictive if, for example, you wished to store
and process long bodies of text in Stata. But in this case, you might
be using the wrong tool for the job. Databases with varchar or memo
fields are happy compactly storing text and have an army of functions
including regular expressions to do sophisticated text processing.
It is attractive to do all one's work within a single programming
environment, but that can become a trap if one has to start employing
ugly kludges to do something some other environment was designed to
handle routinely.
--
David Elliott
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