st: inbase and subinstr problem

["Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" <npatsop@cc.uoi.gr>]

Hi all,

I'm working currently in a project implementing a part of Nick Cox's 
tuples program and I bumped into sth weird.

For values of local which with more than 17 digits subinstr fails to 
count all occurences of number "1". Below is a small code representative 
of the problem:



forval i = 65536/65537 {
   inbase 2 `i'
   local which : di %020.0f `r(base)'
   local which : subinstr local which "1" "1", ///
               all count(local n1)
di "r(base): " `r(base)'
di "which: "`which'
di "n1: " `n1'
}

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,

Nikos
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