Importing
Any text-delimited file (*.csv, *.txt, etc.)
Preview lets you see how the data will look in Stata even before you import them, even from data on the Internet
Automatic delimiter detection for commas, tabs, semicolons, colons, and pipes
May specify delimiter, including multiple-character delimiters
May specify multiple delimiters
Variable names may be on any row in the file
Import selected row ranges
Import selected column ranges
Automatic storage types
Inspect and manually control data types for each column if desired
Support for long strings
Double quotes to delimit strings
Allows "" to mean real double quotes in data (as used by Excel)
Numeric parsing for different numeric formats is supported based on locale
Automatic encoding detection
Exporting
May specify delimiter
Optionally save variable names in first row of data
Support for long strings
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The commands for easily importing and exporting data to and from Stata are import delimited and export delimited.
import delimited is the star of the two. Exporting from Stata has always been easy.
Do you see the preview at the bottom of the screenshot? We have not yet imported any data! We are in the process of filling in the dialog box. As we work, we see exactly how our data would look if we were to import them into Stata using the current settings.
