Christian,
-infix- the data as strings, -drop- unwanted observations, and then
-destring- the data.
. infix module 1-2 var2 3-4 str var3 5-10 str var4 11-11 str var5
12-13 var6 14-14 city 16-19 using db1.pet
. drop if module == 67
. destring var3 var4 var5, replace
Friedrich
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Christian Bustamante <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone....
> I'm trying to read a plain text database with Stata 10, but there is a problem.
> The command i've using is this:
>
> infix module 1-2 var2 3-4 var3 5-10 var4 11-11 var5 12-13 var6 14-14
> city 16-19 using db1.pet if module==95
> infix module 1-2 var2 3-4 var3 5-10 var4 11-11 var5 12-13 var6 14-14
> city 16-19 using db1.pet if module==10
>
> This is a example of the data base
> 670104enginer 0515
> 9510006455 12 0515
> 1062044112 305 0515
>
> I want to read that variables only for modules 95 and 10, not 67, but
> the proble is the text in the lines of module 67. So, stata says:
> 'engi' cannot be read as a number for var3[1]
>
> How can i solve this??
> Pd. I don't matter the module 67
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