This would be most un-Stataish and it would be in my view
be bad style for StataCorp to allow this with -outsheet-
or -outfile-, regardless of whether this is a format that
is acceptable or congenial downstream. But you could program
it yourself fairly easily. The best way that occurs to
me is to use -outsheet- or -outfile- to produce a file,
and then just read in that file once more and spit it
out again with extra intercalated lines.
... if !mod(count, s)
picks up every s th line. That is, the task doesn't
or shouldn't require a hit on -outsheet- or -outfile-
code but could just be treated as a twist on copying a file.
However, if you want tabs or commas in corresponding places,
that would need to be part of the twist.
Nick
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Michael McCulloch
> -list- has a nifty option, -sepby()-, that allows me to list
> data separated
> with lines between a variable, in this case a date:
>
> .list ini dxage sex race datetx, noobs sepby(datetx)
> VJ 68 male asian November, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> HM 59 male white December, 1993
> IT 47 male white December, 1993
> MO 76 male white December, 1993
> WC 74 male white December, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> AW 61 male white January, 1994
> +------------------------------------------------+
>
> From reading the help files, I don't see that there is a way
> to do this
> using outsheet or outfile. Is it possible to output such a
> table to a file
> that can be read by Microsoft Excel or Word?
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