Re: st: {smcl} link problem

[Matthew White <mwhite@poverty-action.org>]

Dear Sergiy,

I'm using Stata 12.1, and it seems to me that the limit might be 254 characters:

forvalues i = 1/265 {
    display as res `i'
    local x : display _dup(`i') "x"
    display "{stata `x'}"
}

I'm not sure where that limit comes from. A workaround might be to put
the command in a do-file or program, and then have the {stata}
directive execute the do-file/program rather than the command. For
example, in -help graph pie-, the "click to run" links don't run the
actual long commands, but instead run a program that contains the
commands (-gr_example2-).

Best,
Matt

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I don't know which limit from 'help limits'  is applicable in this
> case, but it seems that ~244 is rather a small number here. I would
> imagine that "# of characters in a command" is more suitable.
> In the following code snippet the smcl link gets corrupted after the
> link text becomes too long (in my code the list supplied to the link
> is list of different variables of course):
>
> *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
>  *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
> mata
>
> adjvars=""
> for(v=1;v<=99;v++) {
>   v
>   adjvars=adjvars+" x12345"
>   printf("{text}Message: {stata " + `"""' + "describe " +
> adjvars+`"":"'+"INFO"+"}")
>   ""
> }
>
> end
> *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
>  *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
> Can somebody please confirm that 244 is indeed an intended and
> unavoidable limit on such a link size, or is it a bug and is there a
> workaround?
>
> Stata 12/MP/Windows
>
> Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin
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Matthew White
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