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Re: st: RE: numlabel gives syntax error on one specific dataset
From
Graham Wright <[email protected]>
To
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: numlabel gives syntax error on one specific dataset
Date
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:11:05 -0500
Ah, that makes sense. Even if I delete all but one of the variables, the
label sets remain.
Thanks a bunch Nick. This is kind of what I expected the problem might
be. I think I was just thrown for a loop by the error message....if I
had a nickel for every time that's happened.
Thanks again guys.
-Graham
On 2/23/2011 10:03 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
I said that Graham could send a copy to me. I confirm that I get his error message with his data. Looking at the labels there are some unprintable characters in his labels. So, I think he's right. It's a problem with his data.
The error message, by the way, emanates from inside -matalabel-, but tracing it didn't seem the major part of valour.
ASCII-fluent experts can perhaps ascertain [good word, isn't it] what may be alien from the results of -hexdump, tabulate-.
Line-end characters Line length (tab=1)
\r\n (Windows) 2 minimum 14
\r by itself (Mac) 0 maximum 1,274,613
\n by itself (Unix) 0
Space/separator characters Number of lines 3
[blank] 23 EOL at EOF? no
[tab] 0
[comma] (,) 0 Length of first 5 lines
Control characters Line 1 1,274,613
binary 0 117,383 Line 2 22
CTL excl. \r, \n, \t 55,949 Line 3 14
DEL 0 Line 4 .
Extended (128-159,255) 15 Line 5 .
ASCII printable
A-Z 347,961
a-z 42,279 File format BINARY
0-9 710,976
Special (!@#$ etc.) 44
Extended (160-254) 17
---------------
Total 1,274,651
Observed were:
\0 ^A ^B ^C ^D ^G \n ^L \r ^O ^Q ^U ^W ^X ^Y 29 blank ! % ( ) + - . / 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 :< = ? A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
X Y Z [ _ ` a b c d e g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y ~ E^D E^K E^L
E^S 157 158 ¤ ¯ ´ Ê Õ Ø Ý â ñ ù û ü 255
Tabulation (character not listed if unobserved):
Dec Hex Char Frequency
------------------------------
000 00 \0 117,383
001 01 ^A 22,511
002 02 ^B 22,844
003 03 ^C 6,261
004 04 ^D 4,319
007 07 ^G 1
010 0a \n 2
012 0c ^L 1
013 0d \r 2
015 0f ^O 3
017 11 ^Q 3
021 15 ^U 2
023 17 ^W 1
024 18 ^X 1
025 19 ^Y 1
029 1d 29 1
032 20 blank 23
033 21 ! 1
037 25 % 16
040 28 ( 1
041 29 ) 1
043 2b + 1
045 2d - 1
046 2e . 12
047 2f / 1
048 30 0 47,479
049 31 1 90,839
050 32 2 82,546
051 33 3 73,833
052 34 4 82,575
053 35 5 64,831
054 36 6 64,840
055 37 7 64,784
056 38 8 69,947
057 39 9 69,302
058 3a : 3
060 3c< 1
061 3d = 1
063 3f ? 1
065 41 A 32,499
066 42 B 32,704
067 43 C 27,016
068 44 D 26,995
069 45 E 26,561
070 46 F 26,830
071 47 G 11,105
072 48 H 11,118
073 49 I 5
074 4a J 10,874
075 4b K 11,021
076 4c L 11,024
077 4d M 10,793
078 4e N 10,993
079 4f O 3
080 50 P 10,939
081 51 Q 10,846
082 52 R 10,801
083 53 S 1
084 54 T 11,092
085 55 U 11,112
086 56 V 10,856
087 57 W 10,839
088 58 X 10,901
089 59 Y 11,029
090 5a Z 4
091 5b [ 1
095 5f _ 1
096 60 ` 1
097 61 a 12
098 62 b 4
099 63 c 4
100 64 d 10
101 65 e 42,106
103 67 g 11
104 68 h 5
105 69 i 14
107 6b k 1
108 6c l 9
109 6d m 3
110 6e n 21
111 6f o 11
112 70 p 8
113 71 q 2
114 72 r 12
115 73 s 16
116 74 t 12
117 75 u 4
118 76 v 4
119 77 w 4
120 78 x 2
121 79 y 4
126 7e ~ 1
132 84 E^D 2
139 8b E^K 1
140 8c E^L 1
147 93 E^S 1
157 9d 157 1
158 9e 158 1
164 a4 ¤ 1
175 af ¯ 1
180 b4 ´ 1
202 ca Ê 1
213 d5 Õ 3
216 d8 Ø 1
221 dd Ý 2
226 e2 â 3
241 f1 ñ 1
249 f9 ù 1
251 fb û 1
252 fc ü 1
255 ff 255 8
------------------------------
Total 1,274,651
Nick
[email protected]
Maarten buis
--- On Wed, 23/2/11, Graham Wright wrote:
I can send you (or someone) this trimmed down version
of the data set if someone is willing to look at it.
I think the best place to sent it to is Stata's
Techsupport.<http://www.stata.com/support/tech-support/>
We are just users. It is not wrong to ask this question
here: We may have run into this problem before and found a
solution. But you are more likely to get an answer to this
type of question from StataCorp itself.
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