Re: st: smcl files-txt files

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

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If this is truly a smcl log file, you should be able to use Stata's translator 
(see -help translate-) to convert to a text file without the directives (use the 
smcl2txt translator).

It's not clear to me what you mean by "saved as a txt file".  A SMCL file is 
just an ASCII text file that includes smcl directives.  I believe a SMCL file 
needs to have a .smcl extension for the viewer to read it as such, i.e. to 
interpret rather than display the included directives.
If it has a .smcl extension and you are unable to open in it the viewer (eg. 
with -view <filename.smcl>- from the command line ) without a resulting display 
of the included directives, then I suspect you will have trouble with the 
translator also.

- Gary

Rodrigo Briceño wrote:
> Dear Stata Listers. Few days ago I received a log file with a set of
> results from a consultant. The file was saved as a txt file, but the
> contents of the file are still keeping some SMCL references. This
> happened because although the file was saved as txt, it was generated
> as a log in SMCL. (For example:
> like {smcl}
> {com}{sf}{ul off}{txt}{.-}
>        log:  {res}C:\data\brooks02.smcl
>   {txt}log type:  {res}smcl
>  {txt}opened on:  {res}26 May 2009, 10:40:39)
>
> The thing is that I tried to open the file in Stata 9.2 with a viewer
> and all the results are mixed with this set of symbols and signs. I
> tried saving the file as .smcl, but this didn't work. My question to
> you is that if it is possible to get rid of the symbols or otherwise
> being able to see the log in a nice format.
>
> I don't know which version of Stata the consultant used, what I know
> is that locate him is a neverending task.
>
> Thanks for your gently response.

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