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st: problem reading text data into stata
From
David Stromberg <[email protected]>
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st: problem reading text data into stata
Date
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:17:47 +0100
On a number of occasions, I have had problems reading tab-delimited
text (string) data into Stata. For example, I cannot get stata to
correctly read the tab-separated text file at
http://people.su.se/~dstro/textdata.txt
I tried opening it in Excel and resaving, saving as csv, identifying and
eliminating characters which makes Stata misread, etc. Either some lines
are missing, or some text is incorrect, e.g. text within parenthesis.
Any ideas no how to proceed?
Thanks!
David Stromberg
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