On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Adam wrote:
Does anyone know of a dll or API reference that is used to read stata
file
structure from another application?
I am trying to write some code to read the file structure of a stata
file
and DON'T want to use a third party software package.
SPSS has an API reference to for their spssio32.dll, and I am looking
for
something like this for Stata.
NOTE: I don't want to convert the file to another stats package format
using
Stat/Transfer or DBMS/Copy.
"DLL" sounds like some OS-specific construct. The file format for Stata
.dta files is published in the Programming manual, [p] file formats
.dta. You can use that specification to write your code to read the
.dta file without making that routine specific to any particular OS.
Kit
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