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st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string


From   "reardon, sean f." <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string
Date   Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:38:25 -0800

colleagues --
i want to trim leading a trailing blanks off a string entered by a user
in a program -- the string is saved in local macro "model".  the string
may be very long (longer than 256 characters).

when i use the following line:

local model = trim("`model'")

this works fine as long as `model' is shorter than 256 characters.  when
longer, stata truncates the string (i think at 256 characters).  is
there an easy way to trim leading and trailing blanks from a long
string?  (i'm travelling, so don't have access to my manuals right now
-- so apologies if there's a ready answer in the manuals.  i couldn't
find anything on the statalist archives).

thanks,
sean.

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sean f. reardon
associate professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology
school of education, CERAS building 
520 galvez mall, #526
stanford university
stanford, ca 94305-3084
650.736.8517 (office phone)
650.723.9931 (office fax)
[email protected]
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