Dear statalist
I'm working on a program that will need to accept long arguments to be
parsed to the programs. Typically, an argument will be several lists of
names separated by a comma (","). The argument will then the be tokenized
into several sub-lists for further processing. This can easily be done in
Stata with strings passed as an argument and then tokenized. However,
strings has a limit (I think) of 244 characters.
program define longarguments
syntax argument(string)
tokenize "`argument'" , parse(",")
....
....
Is it possible to pass very long arguments (300-1000 characters) to a
program on the commandline? And what is the maximum limit of characters (or
elements) a macro list can hold?
I think I read somewhere that a macro can hold very long lists (like 32768
characters or something) but now I can't find it in the manuals.
Thanks
Michael Ingre
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PhD-student
Department of Psychology
Stockholm University &
National Institute for
Psychosocial Medicine
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