Bookmark and Share

Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

st: AW: Infix imports wrong numbers!


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: Infix imports wrong numbers!
Date   Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:21:08 +0200

<> 

The connection of your problem to -infix- is rather loose. The same happens
if you omit the -double- from the -input- line:

*************
clear*

input double ID
018554079
018554081
end

format ID %09.0f
l
*************

Note the -format- chosen gives you a leading zero, as would a similarly
formatted string, as NJC has already recommended.


HTH
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von techné
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2010 15:55
An: [email protected]
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/


© Copyright 1996–2018 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   Site index