Sorry I was not clear before. Suppose I have the following file in fixed format:
000201234
000305678
000402345
000502321
I am trying to read column 1-5 in charater format, so that I have variables in Stata memory as follows:
ID Sale
00020 1234
00030 5678
00040 2345
00050 2321
The problem is that when I use "infix ID 1-5 Sale 6-10", I have the following because Stata treat:
ID Sale
20 1234
30 5678
40 2345
50 2321
Thoughts?
"Nick Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
>You must spell out that you want the id read
>as a string variable. The help includes examples.
>
>Nick
>[email protected]
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>> I encounter a data input problem in Stata. I have a fixed
>> format file, i.e., abc.raw, and there are ID numbers that I
>> would like to read them in character format. However, the way
>> the ID numbers are created makes it hard to do so. For
>> example, I have an ID is "00020", but Stata read it as "20".
>> Can anyone help me out here? I use "infix id 1-5 using ..."
>> but it does not work.
>>
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