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Re: st: Importing subset of a pipe delimited textfile


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Importing subset of a pipe delimited textfile
Date   Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:49:37 +0100

I'd use -filefilter- to change the pipes to something that -infile- can handle.

(Strictly, -in- is a qualifier, not an option.)

Nick

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Rob Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a very large (around 4Gb) text file that has been pipe
> delimited. It won't all fit in memory so I want to process it in
> parts.
>
> For fixed datasets I would use infile with the in 1/10000000 option
> then 10000001/2000000 etc. However, this dataset has been pipe
> delimited so I would need to use insheet, but insheet doesn't seem to
> permit the "in" option.
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