Maybe a look at -infix- or -infile- could help you?
Best regards,
Even
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Fra: [email protected] [[email protected]] på vegne av Victor M. Zammit [[email protected]]
Sendt: 9. oktober 2008 22:01
Til: [email protected]
Emne: st: Re:Reading data into Stata
Dear Statalist,
I need to read into Stata,data that has a comma ,sometimes after one string
variable and sometimes after two,string variables.And after
the comma,one string variable and two numeric variables.,always.The raw list
of data is thousands of rows long.Is there a way I could
get this raw data into Stata without too much work ? I thank you for any
help you can give me.
string , string numeric numeric
string string , string numeric numeric
string string , string numeric numeric
string string , string numeric numeric
string , string numeric numeric
string string , string numeric numeric
Victor Michael Zammit
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