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| From | Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Variable name length limit |
| Date | Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:51:54 -0500 |
On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: > that is too long could not in fact be a variable name, so it never gets to be a member of _all. Applying -rename- to make it shorter not only won't help, it is not even possible in principle. I misunderstood -- I thought the OP already had an imported dataset but with some names 32 chars long, and then wanted to reshape, so needed to trim these to 31 chars (or less). -- Phil * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/