Re: st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 06:52 PM 3/12/2006, Maarten buis wrote:
> Sean:
> Does -local model trim("`model'")- work? Not evaluating a local 
> macro (leaving the = sign out)
> prevents the 256 character max to bite, but this depends on what is 
> in the original `model' local.
> If that already contains more than 256 characters than the 
> truncation already occured earlier in
> the program.
> HTH,
Nope.  First I set model to "x"; and then

. di `"`model'"'
trim("x")



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