Re: st: Creating local from levelsof exceeding 255 characters

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Palan, Stefan
(stefan.palan@uni-graz.at) <stefan.palan@uni-graz.at> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Naturally, you are right, Maarten. I have now found the problem, but don't know how to address it.
>
> What I do is, I fill my local "a" with the levelsof some variable. The local a then contains some 100 numbers. But then, I need to create a local that contains a string that looks like "t1 t2 t4 t7...". In other words, it needs to contain an entry for each number in a, but with a leading "t", because my variable names are t1, t2, etc. What I do is the following:
>
> foreach v of local a {
>    local b="`b' t`v'"
> }

clear
sysuse auto
levelsof rep78, local(r)
foreach lev in `r' {
	local b `"`b' t`lev'"'
}
display `"`b'"'

Since you are constructing variable names, see if -reshape- may be of
any use in your case.

Best S.R.


>
> Obviously, this building-up of the local b involves an evaluation of it at each step, which then causes it to get truncated.
>
> Can you think of a way around this problem?
>
> Stefan.
>
> ----
>
> From      Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>
> To        statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject   Re: st: Creating local from levelsof exceeding 255 characters
> Date      Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:26:01 +0000 (GMT)
>
>  --- On Fri, 14/1/11, Palan, Stefan wrote:
>> However, the truncation problem seems to occur when I use it
>> in a foreach statement. What I would like to do is loop over
>> all values in my macro, but it stops after 255 characters.
>
> That means that at some point you still evaluated that local.
> As long as you do not do so, there will be no problem:
>
> *--------------- begin example -------------------
> // create a variable such that a string listing
> // all its values is longer than 245 characters
> drop _all
> set obs 500
> gen id = _n
>
> // store that string in locals
> levelsof id, local(levs)
>
> // do the loop
> foreach lev of local levs {
>        di "`lev' " `newl'
> }
> *--------------- end example ----------------------
> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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