This is the syntax I used:
outfile using "C:\Documents and Settings\...\data.txt", nolabel wide
When I executed this command a second time, I did not get an error message.
However, the resulting text file when opened does not appear to be an ASCII
file in fixed column format (it appears instead to either be in Stata data
file format or in raw format).
Barth
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Creating space delimited ASCII data files
Barth wrote:
I have tried using the outfile command in Stata 9.2 to create a space
delimited, fixed format ascii data file using data from an existing Stata
data file. I received an error message that the name of the ASCII file I
specified (outfile using <file name>) did not exist. Despite this message, I
did find the generated file on my computer. However, when I opened the file,
the information was unintelligible (perhaps it was in raw format?). (BTW, I
used the wide and nolabel options). Can anyone tell me how to get a readable
ascii fixed format file using the outfile or similar command?
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