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Re: st: CSV file with variable types
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: CSV file with variable types
Date
Thu, 5 May 2011 02:18:21 +0100
You could read the longer strings into Mata and then chop them into variables.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Argyn Kuketayev
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick
>
> thanks for answer, I totally forgot about 244 limit. Is there a work around?
>
> I was handling these strings outside Stata. I need to convert them
> into 600 observations, one for each month. I was going to read in the
> string, then use the tip from your answer in this list to parse and
> create new observations.
>
> I could easily do this in SAS, of course, but thought it would be nice
> to do everything inside Stata.
>
> cheers
> --
> Argyn Kuketayev
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