st: too long string-variable to get proper output

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

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> From: Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>
> Date: January 11, 2007 11:10:04 AM EST
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: re: too long string-variable to get proper output
>
> Marian had problems with a lengthy string variable.
>
> There should be no problem creating a string variable of 241 bytes:
>
> . gen str241 junk="I tried to generate a cross-table by using a  
> stringvariable as I
> >  tried to generate a cross-table by using a stringvariable as I  
> tried to generate
> >  a cross-table by using a stringvariable as I tried to generate a  
> cross-table by
> > using a stringvariable as I tried to generate a cross-table by  
> using a stringvari
> > able as I tried to generate a cross-table by using a  
> stringvariable as "
>
>
> . desc junk
>
>               storage  display     value
> variable name   type   format      label      variable label
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> junk            str241 %241s
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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