Have you tried "infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt"?
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Subject: Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA
Frank wrote:
Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
I have a (large) dataset in ASCII file. It contains
N colomn data (numerical numbers). I only want to read
part of them, for example, from 5th column to 10th
column into STATA, how to do that?
- and later, after some advice:
When I use the command
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.raw, clear
why it says " file C:\statafile\grade2006.raw not found" ?
( By the way, my data is in grade2006.txt file. )
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Obviously, if the filename is grade2006.txt, use that name:
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
As to the first part of the question: I guess you have a fixed
format ASCII file like this
6526399317663163...
2033027247525752...
6363281072117388...
3660269579850137...
So column 5 to 10 in the first observation contains 393317.
If this represents three different two-digit variables which
you want to give the names v1-v3, use:
infix v1 5-6 v2 7-8 v3 9-10 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
Hope this helps
Svend
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