Re: st: Re: Recognizing the full length of a macro

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

I Agree-- it should be made more clear that all of the "regular" string 
functions (those used with = ) can/will return incorrect results when used 
on text strings longer than the maximum allowed string variable length. 
Perhaps they should just include a line in the help file stating that they 
are not intended for use on macros.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wolfe" <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Recognizing the full length of a macro



> Thanks.
>
> In fact, that's what I ended up doing to accomplish my purpose: use the 
> macro extended functions.
>
> if "`var'" == "`:list pctvar & var'"{
>
> Even so, perhaps index() should still report the correct index or, at the 
> very least, inform us in the help files that it has this limitation,
>
> Fred
>
>
> At 07:42 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
>
> > 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
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