Dear Listers,
I want to use Stata to read a text file line by line. Suppose the
file is d:\temp.txt. one of the line i specially interested is very
long, more than 1000 characters. I use the following code to read:
capture file close myread
file open myread using d:\temp.txt , read text
file readmyrea line
while r(eof)==0 {
local linenum = `linenum' + 1
local myline=`" `macval(line)'"'
disp length(`"`macval(myline)'"')
file myrea hexun line
}
file close hexun
It seems that the maximium length for a string here is only 240.
Is it possible to change it to longer?
thanks
Tony
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