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st: RE: RE: comas in numbrers
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: RE: RE: comas in numbrers
Date
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:11:51 +0100
Steve gave good advice. In addition any decent text editor will do this,
as will Stata. See -filefilter-.
Nick
[email protected]
Steve Samuels
Victor, you can skip all the problems of adding quotes or destringing
by deleting the commas outside of Stata. Use the SED package, built
into all the Unix, Linux, and OS X distributions and also available
for Windows. Write the data into a text file, say file1.txt. Here is
an example:
**************************CODE BEGINS**************************
/*
File file1.txt contains the following two lines with three variables
3,000,000 4,000,000 .
40,000 300,000 100
*/
capture erase file2.txt
! sed -e 's/,//g' file1.txt>file2.txt
infile v1 v2 v3 using file2.txt, clear
des
list
***************************CODE ENDS**************************
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