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Re: st: Insheet Issue
From
Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Insheet Issue
Date
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:35:39 +0100
On 10 MFómh 2010, at 21:46, Jeph Herrin wrote:
Perhaps an embedded | or <carriage return>; or an empty
row. Have you tried inspecting line 164,502 of the ASCII file?
Another nightmare character is the 'Null' character.
Try opening your data in a text editor and giving a 'convert to ASCII'
command.
If you don't have a text editor that does this, you might look at the
text editor FAQ and get one as a priority. Very useful for data
cleaning!
Ronán Conroy
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
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