Re: st: mac editor for big files

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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I usually use TW as well for large files, but I guess I haven't opened one that is larger than 1GB since I've never had one choke.  I'd try Vim or UltraEdit --  I've read that both can handle large (>1 or 2 GB ) text files.  Also, VEDIT can handle text files up to 2 GB, but it's not free.

However, you can load large text files into Stata via commands like -insheet-, or if it's not a dataset you can import with -intext- (From SSC).  Also, you can view just a part of the file from terminal by using the 'head' or 'tail' commands to see the start or end of the large text file very quickly (e.g.,  head -n 100 myfile.txt  to see the first 100 lines).  Finally, if you need to edit or make changes to the file before importing into Stata as a dataset, consider using -filefilter- to make changes to the file.

- Eric

On Aug 19, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I currently use Text Wrangler; however, neither it nor BBEdit will,
> apparently, edit ascii files >1 GB in size (I have 32 GB of RAM); does
> anyone know of an editor for the Mac that will edit files of >1 GB?
> 
> Rich
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