Re: st: how to read very long text lines?

["Li Chuntao (Tony)" <leechtcn@gmail.com>]

Yes, you are right. I am also trying to handle it with Powershell, but
the problem is, i need this specific line and then transfer it into a
Stata data format, probably by using post command. Thus, if i can read
this line via Stata, i do not need to shift between softwares and can
design a package.



On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Carl Severson <carlseverson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a specific reason you are using Stata to do this?
>
> I feel like there are a number of better tools to choose from... perl,
> python, unix command line tools which I can't seem to remember the
> names of this late at night, for example
>
> Carl Severson
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Li Chuntao (Tony) <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to copy a specific line of a text file to another text file.
>> the line number is given, say 2nd line, but this line is too long,
>> more than 1000 characters.
>>
>> Can I use "file read" and "file write" to handl it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Phil Clayton
>> <philclayton@internode.on.net> wrote:
>>> What are you actually trying to achieve?
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> On 08/03/2013, at 5:56 PM, "Li Chuntao (Tony)" <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you, Ryan. But i am still lost with my file reading.
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Ryan Kessler
>>>> <ryan.kessler.stata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Tony,
>>>>>
>>>>> The key here is to steer clear of the "=" sign; see -help macro-,
>>>>> -help limits-, and -help extended_fcn-.
>>>>>
>>>>> local long ""
>>>>> forval i=1/500 {
>>>>>        local long "`long' `=`i'^2'"
>>>>> }
>>>>> di "`long'"
>>>>> di length("`long'")
>>>>> di "`: length local long'"
>>>>>
>>>>> Related discussion -->
>>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-09/msg00973.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan Kessler
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Li Chuntao (Tony) <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Listers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    I want to use Stata to read a text file line by line. Suppose the
>>>>>> file is d:\temp.txt. one of the line i specially interested is very
>>>>>> long, more than 1000 characters. I use the following code to read:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> capture file close myread
>>>>>> file open myread using d:\temp.txt , read text
>>>>>> file readmyrea line
>>>>>> while r(eof)==0 {
>>>>>>  local linenum = `linenum' + 1
>>>>>>  local myline=`" `macval(line)'"'
>>>>>>  disp length(`"`macval(myline)'"')
>>>>>>  file myrea hexun line
>>>>>>
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> file close hexun
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that the maximium length for a string here is only 240.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to change it to longer?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tony
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