I am using the following routine to "export" a Mata matrix to Stata by
writing a text file which I then insheet into Stata and am confused
about why the sprintf command does not need to end with a \n newline
character:
//Write Results matrix to file
fh = fopen("Results.txt", "w")
for (j=1; j<=rows(Results); j++) {
fput(fh,sprintf("%22.0g\t%22.0g\t%22.0g\t%22.0g\t%22.0g\t%22.0g",
Results[j,1],Results[j,2],Results[j,3], Results[j,4],
Results[j,5],Results[j,6]))
}
fclose(fh)
If I add the \n newline character I get my output file, Results.txt
with interspersed blank rows between each row of data.
I made the formatting %22.0g from %12.0g to see if the automatic
newline was caused by exceeding some predefined page width. No matter
how I play with the field lengths I only get the appropriate file in
notepad or wordpad (under MS Windows) if I exclude the \n character.
I don't understand this behavior. Can someone offer an explanation?
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Tom
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Thomas Jacobs
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