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Re: st: length of a returned local using rclass
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A Loumiotis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: length of a returned local using rclass
Date
Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:25:19 +0300
Did you enclose your r(macro) in single quotes?
Page 1673 of the Base Reference states the following technical note:
For r(macro), you are supposed to refer to it in quotes: `r(macro)'.
If, however, you omit the
quotes in an expression context, Stata evaluates the macro and then
pretends that it is the result of
function-returning-string. There are side effects of this, the most
important being that the result is
trimmed to 80 characters.
Antonis
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Miranda Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> When writing a small program that saved a string (list of variables) using
> -rclass- and -return local-, the list was prematurely truncated. I therefore
> wonder if there a limit to the number of characters that can be stored in a
> local macro using rclass, or if I should be looking for a bug in my code?
> Many thanks,
> Miranda
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