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Re: st: truncation with -word- function
From
David Kantor <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: truncation with -word- function
Date
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:01:04 -0500
Wow. Of course.
I should have known.
Thanks so much.
--David
At 12:47 PM 12/16/2011, Matthew White wrote:
Hi David,
local word20 : word 20 of `zzz'
See -help extended_fcn-. Also see [U] 18.3.4 and:
SJ-8-4 pr0045 . . . . . . . . Stata tip 70: Beware the evaluating equal sign
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q4/08 SJ 8(4):586--587 (no commands)
tip explaining the pitfall of losing content in a macro
because of limits on the length of string expressions
Best,
Matt
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM, David Kantor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have encountered a problem with the -word- function.
> Suppose zzz is a macro containing a long list of names. An expressions such
> as
> word("`zzz'", 20)
> cuts off after the 245th character of `zzz'.
> Does anyone know of a way around this?
> I use Stata 10.
>
> Thanks
> --David
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