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Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA


From   "Ni Frank" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA
Date   Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:46:24 -0400

hi,

Thanks a lot! I have tried

infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear

what I saw in the results window of STATA is as follows. And since the file is large, it can't stop, which probably means there are so many stuff not being able to read.

Is there something wrong again?
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
'1.00000.000000.000000.000000' cannot be read as a number for col1[117]
'351.000001.00000' cannot be read as a number for col1[120]
'84147149865196.12309.60336.63218.34402.96' cannot be read as a number for col1

[716]
'.000000.0000001.00000.000000' cannot be read as a number for col1[864]
'351.000001.00000' cannot be read as a number for col1[867]

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From: "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:07:11 +0100

Frank wrote:

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
I have a (large) dataset in ASCII file. It contains
N colomn data (numerical numbers). I only want to read
part of them, for example, from 5th column to 10th
column into STATA, how to do that?

- and later, after some advice:

When I use the command
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.raw, clear

why it says " file C:\statafile\grade2006.raw not found" ?
( By the way, my data is in grade2006.txt file. )
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Obviously, if the filename is grade2006.txt, use that name:
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear

As to the first part of the question: I guess you have a fixed
format ASCII file like this

6526399317663163...
2033027247525752...
6363281072117388...
3660269579850137...

So column 5 to 10 in the first observation contains 393317.
If this represents three different two-digit variables which
you want to give the names v1-v3, use:

infix v1 5-6 v2 7-8 v3 9-10 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear

Hope this helps

Svend
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