I need to input data from 30 odd dbf files where the structure is
Case ID, String.
The string is 80 charecters long and consitis of about 50 odd variables
that have been palced in fixed width format. My solution currently is to
convert each of these files into *.DAT and then infixing using a dictionary.
Can this also be built into the odbc command? So one could say something
like
that explicitly allows you to specify the structure of the table.
Thought I'd throw that out there for Stata Developers. This way i wouldn't
have to first stat transfer a bunch of files and then read each in via a
dictionary.
