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From   "F. Michael Kunz" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Maximum length of macros
Date   Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:19:33 -0400

Dear Statalisters:

How many characters can a local or a global store? I need to store a variable list in a macro and it is being truncated after the 12 character. Changing from local to global is not of any help nor is using double quotes (have tried). Can anyone give me some advice on how to handle this problem?

Thanks!

Code:

. local w = "pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural pctold charscore ipdays opdays tot_hos oppaid totalpaid"
. local z: word count `w'
. display `z'
12
. display "`w'"
pop young old male MSA countyhospice pctblack pctrural pctold charscore ipdays op







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