On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> How can the data be imported into Stata with all observations and
> preferably also with quotes, either single or in pairs? I can open the
> files in a text editor and look for quotes that do not appear in pairs
> to remove them manually, but this is inefficient and changes the
> original data.
You could use -infile-
. infile str6 v1 str6 v2 str6 v3 using test3.txt, clear
(3 observations read)
. l
+------------------------+
| v1 v2 v3 |
|------------------------|
1. | row11 row12 row13 |
2. | row21 row"22 row23 |
3. | row31 row32 row33 |
+------------------------+
Scott
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