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st: RE: How to create data dictionaries using fortran format commands


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: How to create data dictionaries using fortran format commands
Date   Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:59:53 -0000

See the results of 

. whelp infiling 

-infile- or -infix- is my guess. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Robert Breunig
 
> I have a large ASCII file that I wish to read into STATA.  I 
> normally read 
> this file using fortran.
> 
> Instead of creating a data dictionary such as
> 
> var1    1-3
> var2    4-6
> var3    7-9
> etc..
> 
> is there a way to tell stata that I have 9 variables all 
> which take up 3 
> columns.  (In fortran, I would type 9f3.0).

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