Dear all,
I have problems importing some kind of text files into Stata. The files
I want to import are separated by several spaces and have a header line.
If I remove the header line I can use the -infile- command (free format)
while specifying variable names and string variables, which might look like:
infile variable_list using myfile.txt
The problem is I have dozens of such files to import and I don't want to
duplicate them, having one copy with headers and another copy without
headers. The -infile- command allows to import only a subset of
observations by specifying -in range- but then I need to know the row
number of each file.
Do you know how I can retreive the row number of an external text file,
and then use it in a do file as a macro variable `row_no', in a command
such as:
infile variable_list in 2/`row_no' using myfile.txt
Or maybe you have another way to solve my problem?
The -infix- command is not a good solution as the variables are not
always located within the same columns in text file.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Best wishes,
Eve
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