Note that -help infile1- doesn't hint at this
solution. One needs to read the manual entry
(me too, as I had forgotten this detail
through lack of recent use).
Nick
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Rebecca Kalmus
> Sent: 23 May 2004 19:19
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: inputting string variables in comma-separated files
>
>
> That does work. Thanks for your help!
>
> Rebecca Kalmus
>
> ******************************************************************
>
> From "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> To <[email protected]>
> Subject st: RE: RE: inputting string variables in
> comma-separated files
> Date Thu, 20 May 2004 16:35:25 +0100
>
> Try some variation on
> . infile a b str80 c d e using my.csv
> where the "str80" must precede the variable
> name and where "80" can be replaced by the
> largest number of digits.
> Nick
> [email protected]
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