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Re: st: CSV file with variable types
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Argyn Kuketayev <[email protected]>
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Re: st: CSV file with variable types
Date
Wed, 4 May 2011 23:33:55 -0400
Nick
thanks for the tip, i'll try it out tomorrow
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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>> Argyn Kuketayev
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