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From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | RE: st: why messy when importing a csv file? |
Date | Thu, 6 May 2010 18:10:56 +0100 |
Three points: 1. I don't think that this kind of behaviour can in any sense be inferred or even guessed from your description "messy". Thus you wasted your previous email, and the time anyone spent reading it and pondering a reply. 2. I copied your file fragment previously posted and did not get this behaviour. 3. You should inspect your file for strange characters using a decent text editor or Stata's -hexdump- or Stata's -type-. Just because it is called .csv doesn't mean that much. There could be other stuff in it too. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Jessie Grace Neil, the results are as follows. There are only one variable named v1 and 23 observations the number of which is not equal to my csv file. More, all values of the observations are blank. . list +----+ | v1 | |----| 1. | | 2. | | 3. | | 4. | | 5. | | |----| 6. | | 7. | | 8. | | 9. | | 10. | | |----| 11. | | 12. | | 13. | | 14. | | 15. | | |----| 16. | | 17. | | 18. | | 19. | | 20. | | |----| 21. | | 22. | | 23. | | +----+ > From: nshephard@gmail.com > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jessie Grace wrote: >> Dear statalists, >> >> I have a .csv file, which consists of the following. >> >> Stkcd,Accper,A001101000 >> 000002,"1999-06-30",468010960.13 >> 000002,"2002-09-30",1166858479.70 >> 000002,"2000-01-01",772831829.15 >> 000002,"2000-06-30",911966043.54 >> 000002,"2000-12-31",995745160.05 >> 000002,"2009-03-31",26921921879.80 >> 000002,"1997-06-30",0 >> 000002,"1991-12-31",88628783.34 >> 000002,"1992-12-31",204653478.04 >> 000003,"1998-12-31",120946052.36 >> >> The first row contains variables names. The characteristic of the file is the contents of each row are in the same cell. >> No matter I typed "insheet using firms.csv" or "insheet using firms.csv,comma", the importing results are messy. > > What does "messy" look like? If you could -list- the data and copy > and paste it to the list then... > >> Could anyone tell me why and how to solve? > > ...this might be more achievable, otherwise its just guessing. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/