Evidently, your version of Stata cannot read in
string variables longer than 80 characters.
See the help on -limits-.
Nick
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Ni Frank
> 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
>
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