st: Re: Re: import variable value label from TXT file

["Li Chuntao" <chtl@econ.hku.hk>]

Hi Joe,

   Why not save your excel file as a tab delimited txt file and use insheet 
command ?

Chuntao

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zou Hong" <hzou@ln.edu.hk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: st: Re: import variable value label from TXT file



> Dear All,
>
> I have one Stata data file (probably corrupted or due to system 
> imcompatibility), which cannot be opened in one computer though it can be 
> opened on another computer).
>
> In trying to read the data file on my computer, I copied data from EXCEL 
> into Stata editor and then saved it in Stata format. I also have the 
> variable value label file (in TXT format) generated by the "de" command on 
> the other computer.
>
> I wonder whether there is a simple way to import variable value labels 
> from the TXT file into the current new Stata data file.
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated
> Thanks
> Joe
>
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