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st: RE: -desc- output in excel


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: RE: -desc- output in excel
Date   Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:37:49 +0100

At 08:42 01/04/03 +0200, Daniel M�ller wrote (in reply to Radu Ban):
> i want to have a description file for my dataset (i.e.
> names, types, labels).
>
> so i used -desc-, logged the output, saved as a text file
> and opened it in excel. while excel did recognize that the text is
> formatted as a table, some of the label names were too long and they
> occupied more than one line.
>
> is there a way to make sure that the output of -desc-
> is displayed such that each variable occupies only one row?

I think -findit descsave- might do what you want (though I never tried it).
Yes, -descsave- should do what Radu wants. If Radu types

tempfile tf1
descsave,saving(`tf1',replace)
preserve
use `tf1',clear
outsheet using desc1.txt,replace
restore

then -desc1.txt- should be a generic tab-delimited worksheet importable into Excel, with 1 observation per variable in the old data set and data on variable names, types, formats, variable labels and value label names.

Best wishes

Roger



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