Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA

["Ni Frank" <frankflying03@hotmail.com>]

hi,

 Thanks a lot!  I have tried

 infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear

 what I saw in the results window of STATA is as follows. And since the 
file is large, it can't stop, which probably means there are so many stuff 
not being able to read.

 Is there something wrong again? 
infile col1-col5 using C:\statafile\grade2006.txt, clear
'1.00000.000000.000000.000000' cannot be read as a number for col1[117]
'351.000001.00000' cannot be read as a number for col1[120]
'84147149865196.12309.60336.63218.34402.96' cannot be read as a number for 
col1

> [716]
'.000000.0000001.00000.000000' cannot be read as a number for col1[864]
'351.000001.00000' cannot be read as a number for col1[867]

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> From: "Svend Juul" <SJ@SOCI.AU.DK>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA 
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:07:11 +0100
>
> 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. )
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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