Hi Statalist,
Is there a way to stop Stata seeing double quotes as delimiters? I
have data files in txt format, the data is pipe (|) delimited, but the
people who generated the data also use double quotes (") to specify
missing variables so I got a large number of pipes with a couple of
double quotes I find in the txt files.
I can read the data in Stata fine - only if I open up the text files
and remove all the double quotes before I -insheet- the data with pipe
specified as the delimiter. If would be nice if I don't have to check
for double quotes first because it would save me the time opening up
the data files twice - first for getting rid of double quotes and
another for reading it into Stata.
Ada
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