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AW: st: max length of 244 characters
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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AW: st: max length of 244 characters
Date
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:12 +0200
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Also see NJC`s http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=pr0045
HTH
Martin
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Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Maarten buis
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010 17:35
An: stata list
Betreff: RE: st: max length of 244 characters
-- SCHOUMAKER Bruno wrote:
> The problem is that the macro seems to limited to 244 characters :
> `TFR_t' is truncated to 244 characters.
>
> Is there a way to store a longer string expression ?
The trick is to avoid evaluation of the local, which means that you
need to leave out the equal sign. For example I would write the line
local TFRj`i'="TotFR`i'=(" + "`TFR'" + "`mult`i''" + ") "
as
local TFRj`i' "TotFR`i'=( `TFR' `mult`i'' )"
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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