I'm trying to read a tab delimited file into a Stata (Intercooled
8.2) data set using insheet. It's fairly large (3800+ observations,
424 variables) and the first line contains the variable names.
Without the variable name line Stata reads it in fine, but with the
variable name line I get a
"if invalid varname
error in line 1 of file"
error message. I've looked at the variable names, but I don't see
anything obviously wrong, and the Stata help file doesn't say much
about what constitutes valid variable names, nor is the User's Guide
overwhelmingly informative on this issue. Anyone know what the
maximum length for a variable name is? Any other common pitfalls
unique to Stata I should look for?
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Robin
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W. Robert Newberry, IV CIH, CHMM
Chief Environmental Health and Safety Officer
Clemson University
