st: How to deal with commands that are too long for e(cmdline) when writting postestimation commands?

["Schmidt Alexander" <alexander.schmidt@wiso.uni-koeln.de>]

Dear Statalisters,

I am working on an ado that calculates influence statistics 
for higher-level clusters after hierarchical mixed models.
However, my question is pretty much independent of my ado.
My postestimation command needs to extract a list of all 
independent variables of the model and also some other 
elements from the command (options, random effects specifications etc.).

Everything works fine and I don't have a problem with the syntax. 
My problem is simply that I don't know how to deal with command 
lines that exceed 244 characters. How do you deal with command lines 
that cannot be stored in e(cmdline)? Is there a way to get all the 
variables, options, etc. even if the command exceeds 244 characters?

Thanks,

Alex



 





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