Seb Buechte wrote:
> > Common problem for european users. The easier way to avoid it: using
> > Excel, apply function "replace" comma by point (replace all) then
> > save as text file (tab delimited). open stata and import your .txt
> > file will work fine.
>
> Why is that easier?
Among research groups this depends on _who_ has to do it ;-)
Probably StataCorp might add a comma-option to -destring-, hence:
-------------------------------------------destring.ado
program destring
syntax [varlist], [Generate(string) replace] [force] [float] /*
*/ [Ignore(string)] [percent] [comma]
if "`comma'" ~= "" {
foreach var of local varlist {
replace `var' = subinstr(`var',",",".",.)
}
}
<go on as in destring.ado>
-----------------------------------------------------------
As End User you might also copy destring.ado to [personal]/destring2.ado and
make the changes there.
Uli
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