Hi all,
I'm trying to read data from a textfile which recorded the numbers in
a 3-digit exponential format. Though the numbers exactly look like
examples under -help format##eformat- in Stata, I could not infix the
data.
Could somebody familiar with such issues check quickly whether I am
making a mistake, or suggest how I need to edit the textfile before I
can infix it?
My command looks like this:
infix d1 1-16 d2 17-36 rminus1 37-56 r1 57-76 rplus1 77-96 rminus2
97-116 r2 117-136 rplus2 137-156 using PS2_Data_2Bank.txt, clear
The first line of my data reads like this:
3.0000000e+000 2.0000000e+000 1.5910692e+006 1.7318119e+006
1.8748141e+006 3.6291198e+004 7.0991674e+004 1.0588570e+005
And a sample error message I got reads like this:
'2.0000000e' cannot be read as a number for d2[1]
Thank you!
Laszlo
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