Try a dose of SMCL, e.g.
. di `"{p 2 2 2} `rep78[foo]'{p_end}"'
Nick
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Alan Neustadtl
This is a great tip. Now, is there anyway to suppress the line split
character ">" from being inserted?
For example:
***** Stata Output from Maarten's Example *****
. di `" `rep78[foo]' "'
This is a very long "label", which in your case would be the question. I am go
> ing to continue to write just to show how long it can get.
***** END *****
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Mosi Ifatunji wrote:
>> Unfortunately this has not solved the problem. I know
>> "needing/wanting" more than 80 characters is not the norm for
>> a variable label, but I am looking to generate a printout
>> with the original questions and some basic frequency
>> distributions.
>
> --- On Mon, 15/2/10, Nick Cox answered:
>> Not so. As the thread flagged by Eric does clearly indicate,
>> characteristics may be used for this purpose; and you may
>> -display- them at any time in a session.
>
> Just to reinforce this with an example:
>
> *------------------------ begin example -----------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> char rep78[foo] `"This is a very long "label", which in your case would be the question. I am going to continue to write just to show how long it can get."'
>
> // to display the "question" followed by the frequencies you type:
> di `" `rep78[foo]' "'
> tab rep78
>
>
> // this label is longer than 80 characters:
> di length(`"`rep78[foo]'"')
> *---------------------- end example -----------------------
>
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