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st: how to insheet flat file with quote literals losslessly


From   James Sams <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: how to insheet flat file with quote literals losslessly
Date   Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:41:46 -0500

I have a nearly 20 gigabyte dataset shipped as a set of tab-separated files. 
Several of the files have text fields where the fields contain a single and/or 
double quote literal (e.g. '24" ruler'). However I reprocess these fields 
(doubling the quotes "" or escaping the quotes \"), Stata either corrupts the 
input or reads the datum with the quote literal as blank. Is there a way to 
format the data so that it is read losslessly by stata?

Stata 12 MP on Linux and OS X


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James Sams
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