Hmmm...I'm using Ver 8. I'm checking the user's guide
and believe you are right...I'm limited to 80 (I have
Intercooled Stata)....anyone have any work-arounds on
this??
Thanks,
Buddy
--- "Eric G. Wruck" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may be a Stata version problem as there was a
> time when string variables were constrained to be 80
> or fewer characters long. Using Stata 9.2, I was
> able to do the following:
>
> . de
>
> Contains data
> obs: 10
> vars: 1
> size: 1,040 (99.9% of memory free)
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> storage display value
> variable name type format label
> variable label
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> name str100 %100s
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sorted by:
> Note: dataset has changed since last saved
>
>
> . recast str120 name
>
> . de
>
> Contains data
> obs: 10
> vars: 1
> size: 1,240 (99.9% of memory free)
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> storage display value
> variable name type format label
> variable label
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> name str120 %120s
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sorted by:
> Note: dataset has changed since last saved
>
>
> >I have another simple question. I've checked all
> that
> >STATA manuals, and have read up on recast, but I am
> >still having problems. When I imported my data,
> STATA
> >defaulted a string variable to str80 - so it cut
> off
> >some of my responses. I wanted to change the
> storage
> >type to str200. I've used this command:
> >
> >. recast str100 q5mtype
> >
> >q5mtype: str100 invalid
> >r(109);
> >
> >
> >While Stata will allow me to decrease the size
> (i.e. I
> >could type: . recast str79 q5mtype, and it will
> accept
> >me, but it will not allow me to increase the str
> size.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Buddy
>
>
>
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