Re: st: Importing CVS files after "clear" command?

[Sergio Villamayor Tomas <sevillam@indiana.edu>]

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your reply.

This is what I did:
I imported a CSV file into STATA. Then I typed "clear" in the command 
box (I just wanted to try it out). Then STATA cleared all the variables 
of my imported CSV file. Then, I closed STATA. Then I created a new 
copy of my CSV file (from an original excel file). Then  tried to 
import again the CSV file and, although STATA imported it, it only read 
the labels of the file. It looks like it did not recognized the numbers 
of the file.

I read all the threads in statalist after searching by "clear" and, 
maybe it was not that helpful because my STATA knowledge is pretty 
limited yet.

Sorry if my question is too dummy.
Thanks,
Sergio



Quoting Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>:

> Precisely what -clear- does is explained in its help.
>
> Your difficulty is not clear to me. Please specify exactly what
> commands you typed and exactly what Stata did or did not do in
> response.
>
> Your claim to have read all the threads in Statalist stretches
> credibility somewhat....
>
> Nick
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Sergio Villamayor Tomas
> <sevillam@indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> > I just typed "clear" in the command box and now it seems that Stata does not
> > read the variables in any of my CSV files when I import them.
> >
> > I read all the threads at Statalist archives but I am not able to find any
> > hints there besides realizing that "clear" not only clears the dataset from
> > memory, it also clears many other things too...
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