Just a note to say thanks to all who replied with suggestions. And
thanks to David Elliott for providing an ado file he has written. I
have read the txt files into STATA anyway and it looks like there is
no problem (the data files has the number of observations I expected)
but just to be sure I'll try some of the new "toys" you guys have
recommended and hit Ctrl+F. The OS I'm using is 64bit Windows XP so
unfortunately I can only play with some of the programs you have
recommended but not all.
Thanks again!!
Regards,
Ada
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ada Ma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I need to check if the data looks OK - the data should be delimited by
> pipe (|) so I want to check if there is any double quote in the data
> before I read it into Stata. The data is in txt format. I wonder
> which are text editors would allow me to open that up. All
> suggestions are welcomed.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Ada
>
>
> --
> Ada Ma
> Research Fellow
> Health Economics Research Unit
> University of Aberdeen, UK.
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
> Tel: +44 (0) 1224 553863
> Fax: +44 (0) 1224 550926
>
--
Ada Ma
Research Fellow
Health Economics Research Unit
University of Aberdeen, UK.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 553863
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 550926
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