What's missing here is what directories
or folders you are saving these files in.
To see what is in your current working
directory, use -dir- or -ls-. The
dictionary file must be in your current
working directory, unless you specify
another directory.
When I used dictionaries I found it
simplest to put the dictionary section
in the same file as the data and always
use the extension .dct for such
files.
Nick
[email protected]
victor michael zammit
> I have the following data :
> VictoriaW 8 1 XaghraU
> MunxarF 0 1 ZebbugR
> XewkijaT 2 0 SannatL
> KercemA 0 0 NadurY
>
> and I would like to convert it to Stata
>
> The way I proceed is to save it in a do file ,giving it the
> name of score
> , which ,by default Stata recognizes as score.do
> and then write the following dictionary :
> dictionary using score.do {
> str9 a
> byte b
> byte c
> str7 d
> }
> exit
>
> and save it ,giving it the name of score1,which,by default
> Stata recognizes
> as score1.dct
> Then I typed interactively the folowing commands ,but none
> of them worked :
>
>
> . infile using score1
> file score1.dct not found
> r(601);
>
> . infile using score1.dct
> file score1.dct not found
> r(601);
>
> . infile using score1.do
> file score1.do not found
> r(601);
>
> Can anyone one please tell me how to convert data into Stata
> with the use
> of dictionary.
> Using the input command is no problem at all :
>
> input str9 a byte b byte c str7 d
> VictoriaW 8 1 XaghraU
> MunxarF 0 1 ZebbugR
> XewkijaT 2 0 SannatL
> KercemA 0 0 NadurY
> end
> l,notrim
>
>
> . clear
>
> . do "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\STD01000000.tmp"
>
> . input str9 a byte b byte c str7 d
>
> a b c d
> 1. VictoriaW 8 1 XaghraU
> 2. MunxarF 0 1 ZebbugR
> 3. XewkijaT 2 0 SannatL
> 4. KercemA 0 0 NadurY
> 5. end
>
> . l,notrim
>
> a b c d
> 1. VictoriaW 8 1 XaghraU
> 2. MunxarF 0 1 ZebbugR
> 3. XewkijaT 2 0 SannatL
> 4. KercemA 0 0 NadurY
>
> .
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