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| From | Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: String variables over 244 in a dataset with two delimiters |
| Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:30:25 +0100 |
You may have to invest in Stata/SE. See -help limits- That said, you might copy the column from a spreadsheet editor and paste it into a separate text file, then read up the variable with a semicolon delimiter as a series of variables, then merge with your dataset. Why do people do this to us??? r On 2011 MFómh 19, at 12:46, Ozimek, Adam wrote: > Statalisters, > > I have a dataset that is tab delimited, and one of the variables is a string that can be over 244 characters. If I read this using insheet, or inputst, or I think anything else, it truncates this variable. However, there is an aspect of the string variable that I hope will let me get around this: it is delimited by semicolon. Is there a way to select one of the columns in a tab delimited dataset, and read in by parsing it as semi-colon delimited? Is there some otherway to rescue the long variable without the truncation? Ronán Conroy rconroy@rcsi.ie Associate Professor Division of Population Health Sciences Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Beaux Lane House Dublin 2 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/