Yu,
I can think of no other way but what you stated already using the
infile command. However, if your data are all numeric then
infile using myfile
should also work.
Regards,
Raphael
On 8/18/05, Yu Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a shame to ask, but does anyone know how to read
> data (text file) with multiple spaces between
> variables? The number of spaces may vary, so I cannot
> use:
>
> . insheet using file, delim(" ")
>
> The only way I figured out is to count the number of
> variables first (e.g., using Perl) and then use:
>
> . infile var1-var# using file
>
> Is there a more direct way? Thanks!
>
> btw, I am using Stata 8.2.
>
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