st: Re: RE: r(varlist) after command lookfor

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Generally misleading advice.

The 244 characters limit is only if the string is evaluated using an equals sign 
or stored as a variable.  In this specific case, the string is in a local macro 
and just needs to be handled without any equals signs.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: st: RE: r(varlist) after command lookfor



> 244 is the magic number for lengths in Stata... Do you know -ds-? It is
> undocumented but can be extremely useful in such situations...
>
> Martin Weiss
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