Re: st: length of a returned local using rclass

["Michael I. Lichter" <mlichter@buffalo.edu>]

Antonis,

What entry in the base reference is that under? I'd like to look that up 
in the Stata 10 manuals. Thanks.

-ml

A Loumiotis wrote:
> 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 <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk> 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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