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

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

The trick is not evaluate the contents of e(cmd), so store the command
in a local macro like this

local cmd `e(cmd)'

and _not_ like this:

local cmd = `e(cmd)'

After that you can use the extended macro functions to manipulate it.
These are documented in -help extended_fcn- (I usually forget, even
though I use it a lot. I typically type -help macro- and click on the
link to extended macro functions). If you use the string functions
instead of extended macro functions you will evaluate the string, and
the 244 character limit will bite again.

In order to get the variables used in the model I tend to prefer to
use column names of the vector of coefficients.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Schmidt Alexander
<alexander.schmidt@wiso.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
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> 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.).
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> 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,
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> Alex
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