Re: st: using infile dictionary

[Andrzej Niemierko <aniemierko@PARTNERS.ORG>]

Jon,
Yes, it is easy to do what I want manually. The reason I wanted to
"automate" it is that I have to repeat it for a few thousands of files.
I guess I will try to do splitting my text files using PEARL. Thanks for
your help.
Andrzej




On 7/24/10 4:29 PM, "Jon Gettman" <jgettman@hughes.net> wrote:

> Andrzej,
> 
> Jeph Herrin earlier wrote that "Sometimes the best solution isn't a
> Stata solution; for this kind of problem I usually invoke some other
> software."  That might be a useful approach here.  If I understand
> you correctly you have 6 blocks of data in a vertical sequence and
> you want them horizontal.  Open the file in Excel.  Block 1 is line
> A1 through 123. Block 2 is line A124 through B247.  Cut out block 2
> and paste it into C1:D123 .  Do the same for blocks 3,4,5 and 6 into
> columns E&F, G&H, I&J, and K&L respectively.  If the text line is
> unnecessary on Stata, delete row 1.  Insert a blank row at the top,
> enter some var names, save it as a text file, and import to Stata via
> the insheet command.  Sometimes brute force is easier than
> elegance.  It's often better to solve the problem in an elegant way
> because you learn something that becomes useful later.  But sometimes
> utility is premium.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:06 AM 7/23/2010, you wrote:
>> Thank you, Jon. This is helpful but not exactly what I need. In fact, after
>> each line of text I have 122 pairs of numbers so it is _lines(123)
>> structure, and the number of structures is six. However, the real issue is
>> that those 122 pairs of numbers represent only two variables with 122
>> observations each. And this repeats six times. The final data structure
>> should be 6x2=12 columns (variables) with 122 observations each. Any idea
>> how can this be accomplished?
>> Andrzej
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/22/10 11:22 PM, "Jon Gettman" <jgettman@hughes.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> The test data file I set up literally uses "one line of text" as the
>>> string of text on the first,fifth, and ninth lines.  It gets
>>> truncated, and if the line of text is not needed in the dataset, this
>>> might work. Look at Example 7 in the manual on page 294.  Treat the
>>> structure as a 4 line data entry.  Then delete the first variable
>>> when you get the data loaded into Stata.
>>> 
>>> dictionary using "C:\DATA\test.txt" {
>>> _lines(4)
>>> _line(1)
>>>                  str13   xxx             "onelineoftext"
>>> _line(2)
>>>                  int     a1              "a1"
>>>                  int     a2              "a2"
>>> _line(3
>>>                  int     b1              "b1"
>>>                  int     b2              "b2"
>>> _line(4)
>>>                  int     c1              "c1"
>>>                  int     c2              "c2"
>>> }
>>> 
>>> .infile using "C:\Data\test.dct"
>>> 
>>> xxx     a1      a2      b1      b2      c1      c2
>>> one     2       4       3       5       5      6
>>> one     1       3       2       7       7      6
>>> one     4       6       2       1       3       5
>>> 
>>> I hope this helps.  Does this get you what you want?
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 11:38 AM 7/22/2010, you wrote:
>>>> I would appreciate help with -infile dictionary-.
>>>> 
>>>> My data files have the following structure:
>>>> 
>>>> One line of text
>>>> 2 4
>>>> 3 5
>>>> 5 6
>>>> One line of text
>>>> 1 3
>>>> 2 7
>>>> 7 6
>>>> One line of text
>>>> 4 6
>>>> 2 1
>>>> 3 5
>>>> 
>>>> I want to read this file and create six numerical variables (three pairs)
>>>> corresponding to the three sections of numbers below each line of text.
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Andrzej
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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