I've got a number of tab-delimited text files that I'm reading into
STATA 8.2 using insheet. The problem I'm having is that the first 3
variables need to be read is as text, not numeric. Here is one line of
data:
86309 0060 010051000229 0 84 69 66 48 69 75 84 78 87 81 75 63 69
In looking over the infile/dictionary commands, it appears that I
cannot specify a delimeter in the dictionary file.
Could someone please tell me how to read those first 3 in as strings?
Thank you.
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