st: Re: help on dealing with a character in a text file

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

try -hexdump- and -filefilter-.  Use hexdump to identify what ascii codes 
are the problem (use analyze and tabulate options)and use filefilter to 
replace all offending codes with whatever is appropriate (spaces?)

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MITRA PINAKI (MAR1PXM)" <mar1pxm@ups.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: st: help on dealing with a character in a text file



> Hello List,
>
>    I have a series of fixed formatted flat files which I read in STATA
>    using infix. Sometimes I get a character � in one of the name/address
>    fields and STATA stops reading the file. In other words, if the
>    character � appears in line 100, STATA only reads till line 99 of the
>    data file. How can I make STATA read the entire file?
>
> Thanks,
> Pinaki
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