Re: st: truncation with -word- function

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Wow. Of course.
I should have known.
Thanks so much.
--David

At 12:47 PM 12/16/2011, Matthew White wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> local word20 : word 20 of `zzz'
>
> See -help extended_fcn-. Also see [U] 18.3.4 and:
>
> SJ-8-4  pr0045  . . . . . . . . Stata tip 70: Beware the evaluating equal sign
>        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>        Q4/08   SJ 8(4):586--587                                 (no commands)
>        tip explaining the pitfall of losing content in a macro
>        because of limits on the length of string expressions
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM, David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have encountered a problem with the -word- function.
> > Suppose zzz is a macro containing a long list of names. An expressions such
> > as
> >        word("`zzz'", 20)
> > cuts off after the 245th character of `zzz'.
> > Does anyone know of a way around this?
> > I use Stata 10.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --David
> [...]
>
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> Matthew White
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