Try this:
************* test ***************
cap program drop test
program define test, rclass
version 11
local rlist
forv i=1/50 {
local text "text`i'"
local rlist `rlist' `text'
}
di "`rlist'"
return local test `"`rlist'"'
end
test
di "`r(test)'"
**********************************
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
I thought I understood this, but maybe I'm just making
an obvious typo. When I run the following
************* test ***************
program define test, rclass
version 11
local rlist
forv i=1/40 {
local text "text`i'"
local rlist `rlist' `text'
}
di "`rlist'"
return local test `"`rlist'"'
end
test
di r(test)
**********************************
Why is -rlist- truncated to 244 chars in the return list? I have
tried this a number of different ways (I guess I have never tried
to return a long string before?); I thought as long as I used
macro copy rather than evaluate, macros would not get truncated.
I have tried many variations on the -return- assignment, but this
is the one explicitly recommended on [P] page 340.
thanks,
Jeph
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