Re: st: outsheet or outfile display

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Not sure how Excel could read a file with dashed lines; if you
don't want the lines, just -sort- on the variable before using
-outsheet-. If you do want the lines, I think you'll have to
use the -file- command.

hth,
Jeph



Michael McCulloch wrote:
> -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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> Best wishes,
> Michael McCulloch
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