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| From | "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: AW: Infix imports wrong numbers! |
| Date | Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:58:58 +0200 |
<> Read the "ID" in as data type "double", as described in the help file for -infix-. HTH Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von techné Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2010 15:55 An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Betreff: st: Infix imports wrong numbers! 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/ * * 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/