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| From | techné <fondamentalmente@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: Infix imports wrong numbers! |
| Date | Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:54:43 +0200 |
Hope it is not too odd a question: I have tried to find solutions to this but could not manage to solve it by myself or surfing the net I am using infix to import a dataset that has fixed column-content. The problem is that infix seems "imprecise" in that it imports long numbers mistaking the last digit, or averaging some variables between two subsequent observations... Here is an example: consider the file test.xxx which is made of the following two lines: 018554079 00002 018554081 00002 I use the command: infix ID 1-9 EMPTY 10-22 VAR1 23-27 using test.xxx what I obtain is two observations with ID == 018554080 !!! what's wrong? Thank you very much for your help frank * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/