Re: st: RE: smcl files-txt files

["Michael I. Lichter" <mlichter@buffalo.edu>]

If you have some smcl-coded text and you cannot or don't want to 
translate it as suggested by Gary, the more general solution to what 
Julie suggested is to replace text using a regular expression. In Word 
2003, for example, select Edit->Replace ..., enter "\{?@\}" (without the 
quotes) in the "Find what:" box, click on the "More" button, click the 
checkbox for "Use wildcards", and then click "Replace All". This 
replaces everything between pairs of curly brackets, inclusive of the 
brackets. Of course, if the log file for any reason included curly 
brackets for something other than smcl, that text would be removed as well.

Michael

Julie Trivitt wrote:
> I have had to deal with this before.  I found a work around, although I
> suspect it is not the quickest or simplest solution.
>
> I would open it in a text editor or Word and then use the find/replace tool.
>
> I would find {smcl} and replace with (nothing)
>
> Then repeat for {txt}, {res}, {sf}, {com}.... all of the nuisance characters
> in the file.
>
>
>
> Like I said, I sure it's not the most efficient fix, but I was able to get a
> cleaner, useful file out of it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Briceño
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:03 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: smcl files-txt files
>
> 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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