Re: st: using infile dictionary

[Jon Gettman <jgettman@hughes.net>]

The test data file I set up literally uses "one line of text" as the 
string of text on the first,fifth, and ninth lines.  It gets 
truncated, and if the line of text is not needed in the dataset, this 
might work. Look at Example 7 in the manual on page 294.  Treat the 
structure as a 4 line data entry.  Then delete the first variable 
when you get the data loaded into Stata.

dictionary using "C:\DATA\test.txt" {
_lines(4)
_line(1)
                str13   xxx             "onelineoftext"
_line(2)
                int     a1              "a1"
                int     a2              "a2"
_line(3
                int     b1              "b1"
                int     b2              "b2"
_line(4)
                int     c1              "c1"
                int     c2              "c2"
}

.infile using "C:\Data\test.dct"

xxx     a1      a2      b1      b2      c1      c2
one     2       4       3       5       5      6
one     1       3       2       7       7      6
one     4       6       2       1       3       5

I hope this helps.  Does this get you what you want?
Jon




At 11:38 AM 7/22/2010, you wrote:
> I would appreciate help with -infile dictionary-.
>
> My data files have the following structure:
>
> One line of text
> 2 4
> 3 5
> 5 6
> One line of text
> 1 3
> 2 7
> 7 6
> One line of text
> 4 6
> 2 1
> 3 5
>
> I want to read this file and create six numerical variables (three pairs)
> corresponding to the three sections of numbers below each line of text.
> Thank you.
> Andrzej
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