Re: st: long invalid varname error on insheet

["Victor C. Van Hee" <vvanhee@gmail.com>]

I figured this out -- apparently, you can't name a variable "long".   
Stata was trying to tell me what was wrong, but I was assuming it  
meant my variable names were too long or the datatype was 'long'.   
Changed it to 'longit' and it works!

On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Victor C. Van Hee wrote:

> I'm at the end of my wits -- I've been trying to import a csv file  
> into stata for the last 30 minutes...  I've tried converting it to a  
> tab separated file with no luck.  I've tried renaming the variable  
> names, no luck.  If I delete the first line, it works just fine...   
> Guess I'll just import it without line 1 and rename all the variable  
> names.  Anyone know why this is happening?  I'm attaching the  
> culprit first line below.
>
> . insheet using traf_reg.tsv
> long invalid varname
> error in line 1 of file
> r(198);
>
> recnum 
> ,lfadd 
> ,ltadd 
> ,rfadd 
> ,rtadd 
> ,prfix 
> ,prtyp 
> ,name 
> ,type 
> ,sffix 
> ,fcc 
> ,zipl 
> ,zipr 
> ,shplng 
> ,fid1 
> ,name1 
> ,vol6 
> ,date6 
> ,lat 
> ,long 
> ,xstrt 
> ,xdir 
> ,xdist 
> ,date1 
> ,vol1,date2,vol2,date3,vol3,date4,vol4,date5,vol5,dyna,rutid,tcid
>
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