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| From | Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| 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!
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