Thank-you very much Phil and Kit for your helpful suggestions.
Yes please for the python script Phil
Rosemary
On Thu, 8
Jan 2009, Phil Schumm wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Anne Tate wrote:
> > Actually, now I think of it I also have problems viewing the do
> > files using e.g the unix more command. Is there an easy way I can
> > convert the format of these too?
>
>
> If you're working in OS X, it's best just to standardize on Unix EOLs
> for all text files. Your first email indicated that you use TextMate
> as your editor (good choice, BTW); its default is to save with Unix
> eols, so any do-files you create with it should be fine. If you have
> existing do-files containing Mac Classic (CR) or Windows (CR-LF) EOLs,
> just open them in TextMate, choose "Save As...", and use the pop-up
> menu in the resulting dialog to change the line endings to Unix. If
> you have lots of files you want to convert in batch, there are scads
> of little utilities out there to do this. If you want, I can send you
> a Python script to do it.
>
>
> -- Phil
>
> P.S. As an alternative when moving data from Stata to an SQL database,
> you might want to take a look at -tosql- (type -findit tosql-). Kit
> wrote this a while back, and it works very nicely.
>
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