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It is not clear what format the data are in, but if 9(13) means a pure
numeric format with 4 digits after the decimal (or some other decimal
format), and you don't literally mean a number like 9(13), then the
problem
may be one of precision.  You should probably infix it as a string and
then
use destring, but you may also import the number as a double instead of
the
default float, which would give you more digits of resolution.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected] 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rima Chakravarty" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:38 AM
Subject: st: Fwd: Infix Command


> I am trying to import an ascii file into Stata using the infix
command.
> There are fields which has the format as 9(13), without any decimal
> place but numeric. Stata is messing up the last two numbers of that
> specific field in the imported Stata file. But if I import that field
as
> a string field then it is importing it correctly. I have been trying
to
> figure out why this is happening for quite sometime.  Just wondering
if
> anybody have an answer for this.
>
>
>
>
> Rima Chakravarty
> Economist
> Tax Research - Dept. of Revenue
> State of North Carolina
> 919.733.7738



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