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Re: st: RE : st: Insheet Issue


From   "Michael N. Mitchell" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE : st: Insheet Issue
Date   Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:51:39 -0700

Dear Antonio

I would suggest checking out the -hexdump- and -filefilter- commands within Stata. The -hexdump- command, with the -analyze- option will give you a kind of frequency distribution of all of the different characters in your file. This will allow you to identify any nasty bits in your file (i.e., non-ASCII characters).

You can then use the -filefilter- command to convert those nasty characters into something more innocuous (that would not bother -insheet-).

This solution takes a little time and patience, but I think it will get you to where you want to go.

Best luck!

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-09-11 12.42 PM, Vezzani, Antonio (EST) wrote:
I checked the file: in the last row uploaded there is an arrow in a cell
string, I've tried to delete it but still doesn't work, and the null cells
are already empty...any other suggestion?



-------- Message d'origine--------
De:	[email protected] de la part de Ronan Conroy
Date:	sam. 11/09/2010 18:35
À:	[email protected]
Cc:	
Objet:	Re: st: Insheet Issue

On 10 MFómh 2010, at 21:46, Jeph Herrin wrote:


Perhaps an embedded | or<carriage return>; or an empty
row. Have you tried inspecting line 164,502 of the ASCII file?

Another nightmare character is the 'Null' character.

Try opening your data in a text editor and giving a 'convert to ASCII'
command.

If you don't have a text editor that does this, you might look at the
text editor FAQ and get one as a priority. Very useful for data
cleaning!



Ronán Conroy
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