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st: RE: why messy when importing a csv file?
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: why messy when importing a csv file?
Date
Thu, 6 May 2010 17:53:59 +0100
No definition of "messy" here.
My guess: By default your third variable will be -float- type and will
be assigned a format %8.0g. That wouldn't look exactly like the original
without resetting the format.
Otherwise put: without specifying more information, you are in effect
_asking_ for Stata's default treatment in terms of storage types and
formats. So, the results shouldn't seem surprising.
Nick
[email protected]
Jessie Grace
I have a .csv file, which consists of the following.
Stkcd,Accper,A001101000
000002,"1999-06-30",468010960.13
000002,"2002-09-30",1166858479.70
000002,"2000-01-01",772831829.15
000002,"2000-06-30",911966043.54
000002,"2000-12-31",995745160.05
000002,"2009-03-31",26921921879.80
000002,"1997-06-30",0
000002,"1991-12-31",88628783.34
000002,"1992-12-31",204653478.04
000003,"1998-12-31",120946052.36
The first row contains variables names. The characteristic of the file
is the contents of each row are in the same cell.
No matter I typed "insheet using firms.csv" or "insheet using
firms.csv,comma", the importing results are messy.
Could anyone tell me why and how to solve?
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