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

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

MITRA PINAKI (MAR1PXM) wrote:

> 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?
A good text editor can clean up a file like this. There is usually a 
command called something like "convert to ASCII" which removes dud 
characters.

This one is interesting, though, as Stata is apprently interpreting it 
as an end of file marker. Do you get an error or does Stata seem content 
that it has read all the data there is?

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Ronan M Conroy (rconroy@rcsi.ie) 
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Royal College of Surgeons 
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