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| From | Rob Shaw <rob.shaw.uk@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: skipping rogue commas when importing csv file using -infile- |
| Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:59:19 +0100 |
Hi I'm importing (part of) a large text file into Stata using --infile--. The file is a csv. However, it seems that a small number of lines have a rouge extra comma in them, which is then pushing all the data along by one variable. This happens not just for that line but for all subsqequent lines as well! I'm not too bothered if I have to later drop or reprocess this individual line but does anyone know if there is there a way to stop it affecting all the lines afterwards as well? File example (with identical records in this example) ABC,DEF,GH,IJK ABC,DEF,GH,IJK ABC,DEF,G,H,IJK ABC,DEF,GH,IJK ABC,DEF,GH,IJK What I then get is for var1 is ABC ABC ABC IJK IJK and var2 is DEF DEF DEF ABC ABC etc using hexdump it seems that all the lines finish with \r\n so if there is a way to use this to 'reset' at each line then that would work. Many thanks Rob * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/