Re: st: ONE STATA QUESTION ON READING DATA

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

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. But I don't have a detailed description of 
the structure. 
Now,  I have transfered that file into stata file and try to load the whole 
data into STATA (I have set the memeory to 1G so I can load all the data).  
But when I use it, it says

. use E:\working_cd1\grade2006.dta

data contains strings longer than 80 characters

What does that mean?  Thanks again!

Frank






> 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 10:12:22 +0100
>
> Frank wrote:
>
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Frank,
>
> Do you have a description of the structure and contents of the
> ascii-file? If not, we can only guess. The command
>    infile col1-col5 using ...
> requires that the file is tab- or comma-separated, and from the error
> messages that does not seem to be the case.
>
> A fixed-format ascii-file without a format description is pretty
> useless. Maybe KGB or CIA can find out, but we can't.
>
> Svend
>
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