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Re: st: Breaking huge lines and creating variables
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Breaking huge lines and creating variables
Date
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:04:10 +0100
Please don't show an abstraction. Show us a concrete example.
It all depends on the length of the lines, which you don't give. If
this can be read into one or more string variables, Mata may not be
necessary.
Nick
Nick
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Pedro Nakashima
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalisters,
>
> My current database(it's in .txt) has a typical line in the form :
>
> cod1=time1 cod2=... cod3=n cod4=type1 cod5=quantity1
> cod6=price1 cod4=type2 cod5=quantity2 cod6=price2
>
> cod3=n (n=2 in this case, and n varies through lines) says that
> following this code, that are 2 records, each of them starts with
> cod4=type. For example:
> cod4=type1 cod5=quantity1 cod6=price1 and
> cod4=type2 cod5=quantity2 cod6=price2 are records.
>
> I want to generate a new database in the form:
>
> cod1 cod4 cod5 cod6
> time1 type1 quantity1 price1
> time1 type2 quantity2 price2
>
> I think it's only possible to do that with Mata given the lenghs of
> the lines, is it right?
>
> Can anyone give me a direction?
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