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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | 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 <akuketayev@mail.primaticsfinancial.com> 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 > * > * 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/