st: Refer to specific BLOCK of data for reading in ASCII

[Michael Boehm <michael.boehm1@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I want to read in data from the National Education Longitudinal Study,
which is in ASCII format with multiple blocks of numbers rather than
one. I want to tell Stata to look for a specific column in a specific
block, the first of which is not hard but the second I cannot figure
out. For example, how should I amend a dictionary of the form

dictionary using 03955-0001-Data.txt
{
_column(8) float f4univ1 %4f "Sample member status in all five waves"
}

to tell Stata to look for f4univ1 in _column(8) of block 1 out of 15?

Thanks,
Michael
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