Re: st: insheet fails with quotes in data

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

Fredrich asked:

> I work with tab-delimited text files with string variables that
> sometimes contain quote marks...
> How can the data be imported into Stata with all observations and
> preferably also with quotes, either single or in pairs?
If you have a copy of Stat/Transfer, change the "ASCII File Read 
Options/String Quote Character" to a blank.  Stat/Transfer will then 
read your file correctly.  If you are using the command processor, 
for instance on a Unix platform, issue the option:

        set quote-char-rd none

which will work as well.


Best,

Steve



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