Frank wrote:
I have tried
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
what I saw in the results window of STATA is as follows.
And since the file is large, it can't stop, which probably
means there are so many stuff not being able to read.
Is there something wrong again?
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
'1.00000.000000.000000.000000' cannot be read as a number for col1[117]
'351.000001.00000' cannot be read as a number for col1[120]
'84147149865196.12309.60336.63218.34402.96' cannot be read as a number
for col1
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Frank,
Do you have a description of the structure and contents of the
ascii-file? If not, we can only guess. The command
infile col1-col5 using ...
requires that the file is tab- or comma-separated, and from the error
messages that does not seem to be the case.
A fixed-format ascii-file without a format description is pretty
useless. Maybe KGB or CIA can find out, but we can't.
Svend
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