1. I guess you could write your own command based on -file-
to read in text strings and assign them to value labels.
2. One of the many interesting aspects of Statalist is that
you learn about other people's quite different desires
in data analysis. If you had value labels longer than 244 characters,
when and how in Stata would you make _practical_ use of them?
2. (This isn't really new to 9.1, but the announcement caused me to look
at -help limits- again.) According to the help file, "length of string
in string expression " and the "length of a string variable" are both
244 characters. The "length of value label string" is 32 000, however.
Am I reading this correctly, that by putting the text contents into a
value label we can work around the 244-character limit of string
variables? If so, how can this normally be accomplished in practice?
By using -infile , automatic-? I've had trouble understanding how the
-automatic- option works in -infile-.
