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The entry is called "saved results".
HTH
Martin
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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Michael I.
Lichter
Sent: Dienstag, 6. April 2010 21:10
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: length of a returned local using rclass
Antonis,
What entry in the base reference is that under? I'd like to look that up
in the Stata 10 manuals. Thanks.
-ml
A Loumiotis wrote:
> Did you enclose your r(macro) in single quotes?
>
> Page 1673 of the Base Reference states the following technical note:
>
> For r(macro), you are supposed to refer to it in quotes: `r(macro)'.
> If, however, you omit the
> quotes in an expression context, Stata evaluates the macro and then
> pretends that it is the result of
> function-returning-string. There are side effects of this, the most
> important being that the result is
> trimmed to 80 characters.
>
> Antonis
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> When writing a small program that saved a string (list of variables)
using
>> -rclass- and -return local-, the list was prematurely truncated. I
therefore
>> wonder if there a limit to the number of characters that can be stored in
a
>> local macro using rclass, or if I should be looking for a bug in my code?
>> Many thanks,
>> Miranda
>>
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