st: dictionary problem

["DeMichele, Matthew" <mdemichele@rti.org>]

Hello statalisters:
I've been tasked with transferring SAS setup codes for a large survey into Stata and SPSS. The SPSS conversion has gone pretty smoothly and the setup files run (which makes sense because SAS and SPSS have many programming similarities). Stata, on the other hand, is not going as smoothly. 

I'm new to running Stata dictionary files, so I assume I'm making a simple mistake that may be obvious to the more experienced Stata users. My dct file is abbreviated below (and the variable names and values are altered because of the nature of the collection), as well I've left out several variables in the output just for simplicity sake (i.e., the gap between line 25 and 131). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. 

Best regards, Matthew 

. infile using `dict', using (`raw_data') clear
dictionary   {
_lines(1)
_line(1)

_column (1)  int        db                           %8f             	 " BIRTH" 
_column (9)  int        pd           		%8f              	" ADMISSION " 
_column (17) int        pr                     	%8f             	 " RELEASE" 
_column (25) int        pe                       	%8f      		" ELIGIBILITY " 
..... 
_column (131) str       osc_1           	 %8s              	"OFFENSE #1 -" 
str already defined
dictionary invalid
r(614);


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