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Re: st: Variable name length limit
From
Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Variable name length limit
Date
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:51:54 -0500
On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> that is too long could not in fact be a variable name, so it never gets to be a member of _all. Applying -rename- to make it shorter not only won't help, it is not even possible in principle.
I misunderstood -- I thought the OP already had an imported dataset but with some names 32 chars long, and then wanted to reshape, so needed to trim these to 31 chars (or less).
-- Phil
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