Re: st: Problem with infix: record too long

[Barbara Guimarães <barbara.vgh@gmail.com>]

Dear Nick, unfortunetly, I'm not being able to open the file with any
word processor (I believe that it is because of its size / this
dataset was provided by an government organization, so I already
received it in .txt format and don't have access to the primary data)

However, the output of the hexdump analyze was:
>> . hexdump TS_QUEST_ALUNO.txt, analyze

Line-end characters                                          Line lenght (tab=1)
   \r\n    (Windows)                      2,517,361           minimum
                        0
   \r by itself (Mac)                          686,626
maximum               20,971,542
   \n by itself (Unix)                         768,441

Space/separator characters                               Number of
lines            3,972,429
    [blank]                                  112,067,613           EOL
at EOF?               no
    [tab]                                             707,187
    [comma] (,)                                  765,547      Length
of first 5 lines

Control characters
Line 1                            120
    binary 0                               30,611,037
Line 2                            120
    CTL excl. \r, \n, \t                 19,330,367              Line
3                            120
    DEL                                           367,820
Line 4                            120
    Extended (128-159,255)      21,370,596              Line5
                    120
ASCII printable
     A-Z                                    149,642,323
     a-z                                       16,234,081
File format      BINARY
     0-9                                        53,967,247
     Special (!@#$ etc.)               28,963,365
    Extended (160-254)               54,882,559
                      ------------------
Total                                        495,399,531

Observed were:
\0^A^B^C^D^E^F^G^H\t\n^K^L\r ^N^O^P^Q^R^S^T^U^V^W
^X^Y^Z Esc 28 29 30 31 blank ! " # $ % & ' () * +, -./ 0 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
Z [\]

Is there any way I could transform this dataset in a way Stata would
read it entirely?

thank you and regards,
Barbara
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