Re: st: RE: variable label length limit

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

> WRT translating from SPSS, are you sure that Stat/Transfer doesn't
> provide an option to transfer long variable labels into Stata notes
> (which, BTW, are themselves implemented as characteristics)?


Indeed, Stat/Transfer Version Ten writes variable labels longer than 
Stata's eighty character maximum as both as truncated variable labels 
and, in full, as Stata notes.

Best,

Steve



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