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Re: st: CSV read with limits
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Argyn Kuketayev <[email protected]>
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Re: st: CSV read with limits
Date
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:49:38 -0500
thanks.
70K limit is probably Excel's limit. my CSVs are not from Excel
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe:
>
> insheet X Y Z using file.csv, names comma
>
> where X Y Z are the variables you want. I don't know of a way to limit
> observations.
>
> Also, csv files have a limit of 70K rows, so watch out.
>
> DVM
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Argyn Kuketayev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have CSV file (comma separated). I need Stata to read the 1st line
>> with variable names, then import only selected variables. Also I want
>> to limit the number of observations to read.
>>
>> I cant figure out how to do it in Stata. In SAS it would be easy with
>> DATA, var list and OBS option.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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