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Re: st: Importing CVS files after "clear" command?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Importing CVS files after "clear" command?
Date
Mon, 7 Mar 2011 00:39:54 +0000
There is a lot of advice in the FAQ on how to ask questions.
Also check out
http://blog.stata.com/2010/12/14/how-to-successfully-ask-a-question-on-statalist/
Sounds as if you need to show us some of the .csv file that you think
didn't read in properly. Not the whole thing, which of course might be
enormous, but just the first few lines. Don't send it as an
attachment: copy and paste into your message.
Nick
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Sergio Villamayor Tomas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> This is what I did:
> I imported a CSV file into STATA. Then I typed "clear" in the command box (I
> just wanted to try it out). Then STATA cleared all the variables of my
> imported CSV file. Then, I closed STATA. Then I created a new copy of my CSV
> file (from an original excel file). Then tried to import again the CSV file
> and, although STATA imported it, it only read the labels of the file. It
> looks like it did not recognized the numbers of the file.
>
> I read all the threads in statalist after searching by "clear" and, maybe it
> was not that helpful because my STATA knowledge is pretty limited yet.
>
>
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