st: Re: Recognizing the full length of a macro

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Your wish is granted :)

Since Stata 8, you can get the length of a macro by using the macro extended 
function

local macrolen: length local macroname

I'm not sure why you need the index function given the variety of macro 
extended string functions available, especially the new(ish) family of macro 
list functions but also the subinstr, word count and word # functions.

type whelp macrolists and check out the functions there.  Can you identify 
something you can't accomplish with the available functions?

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wolfe" <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: st: Recognizing the full length of a macro



> Stata SE allows a macro to have a length <= 1,081,511. However string 
> functions including length() and index() don't recognize lengths greater 
> than 245.
>
> Perhaps recognizing the full length of macro could be added to the wish 
> list. Until that time, however, I suggest this limitation be added to the 
> help limits and help strfun files.
>
> Fred Wolfe
>
> Fred Wolfe
> National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
> Wichita, Kansas
> Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
> fwolfe@arthritis-research.org
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