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RE: st: Outsheet file to "txt" file
Another possibility is to use -listtex-, downloadable from SSC. You
might type
listtex x y z using mytextfile.txt, delim(" ") replace
and the file -mytextfile.txt- will contain the variables x, y and z,
delimited by 11 spaces.
I hope this helps.
Roger
Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ulrich Kohler
Sent: 24 August 2006 08:23
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Outsheet file to "txt" file
Ms. Marilyn Ibarra wrote:
> I am trying to outsheet data from STATA to a "txt" file. I do not
want
> comma's or tab's between columns. I would like the data to have
spacing
> (11 spaces) between each column. Is there a way to set the spaces
between
> columns so that it looks like this:
>
>
>
> 1122 222 65445
>
> 1122 222 65445
>
> 1122 222 65445
>
>
>
>
>
> I would like to have:
>
>
>
> In column 1, a 4 digit number and 7 spaces after the number. In
column 2,
> a 3 digit number and 8 spaces after the number. Etc....
Outsheet uses tabs to separate columns, and talking about a tab as being
"11 spaces" wide is somewhat problematic. The wideness of the tab depend
on
the program that you use to view the file. It is not a feature of the
tab
itself.
However, if you want to save your data into a text file with spaces in
between
the columns you can build one string variable from you data and save
this
string into a text file. Imagine that your variables are v1 v2 v4:
. gen out = string(v1) + " " + ///
string(v2) + " " + ///
string(v3)
. outsheet out using myfile, noquotes
The aproach has its enemies in the number of characters that can be
stored in
a string variable---244---, naturally.
hope this helps
Uli
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