Hi all,

I am trying to import very large text string variables into Stata (pages of text into a single variable). I see on the -help limits- that strL allows 2,000,000,000 bytes, which is plenty of space for the data I have. However, when I create a strL variable and go to import my data, Stata is still cutting the data short (an observation of text gets cut off exactly at 2,500 characters/bytes). I have tried importing documents from csv, xls, xslx, and copying and pasting the text directly. Nothing works. It feels like I have tried everything but I cannot find a solution nor find anything online.

Thanks for your help!
Roger