st: help on dealing with a character in a text file

["MITRA PINAKI (MAR1PXM)" <mar1pxm@ups.com>]

Hello List,

    I have a series of fixed formatted flat files which I read in STATA
    using infix. Sometimes I get a character � in one of the name/address
    fields and STATA stops reading the file. In other words, if the
    character � appears in line 100, STATA only reads till line 99 of the
    data file. How can I make STATA read the entire file?

Thanks,
Pinaki

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Pinaki Mitra
UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc.
35 Glenlake Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30345
Voice: (404) 828-6759
Fax:    (404) 828-6660
Web:   www.upscapital.com



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