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Re: st: maximum number of characters in string variables


From   [email protected] (William Gould)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: maximum number of characters in string variables
Date   Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:20:16 -0500

Artyom Durnev <[email protected]> asked, 

> I need to download a string variable which is 120 characters long. STATA
> only allows me to have 80 characters. The rest of the characters get
> truncated. Is it possible to download really long strings?

You have two choices.  The first is to live with the 80-character limit 
and to read the 120 character string into two variables.  The other is 
to upgrade to Stata/SE, which allows string variables to be up to 244 
characters long.

-- Bill
[email protected]
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