Re: st: Infile stops reading dataset

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 27 M�rta 2007, at 17:09, evan roberts wrote:

> hello,
>
> Has anyone ever had infile stop reading a dataset part way through  
> a file for no apparent reason?
>
> I have tested the dictionaries and the data reads in correctly for  
> the first 3534 lines of the file, and then stops (there are 778,429  
> lines in the file -- it is hierarchical).
It's good that Bill has found the particular cause of this glitch,  
but in general this sort of problem often results from non-printing  
junk characters in your data. Especially beware of files that resided  
on MS-DOS.

The first step in fixing this problem is probably to open the data  
file in a text editor and simply issue the 'convert to ASCII' command.


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