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Re: st: String variables over 244 in a dataset with two delimiters
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: String variables over 244 in a dataset with two delimiters
Date
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:30:25 +0100
You may have to invest in Stata/SE. See -help limits-
That said, you might copy the column from a spreadsheet editor and paste it into a separate text file, then read up the variable with a semicolon delimiter as a series of variables, then merge with your dataset.
Why do people do this to us???
r
On 2011 MFómh 19, at 12:46, Ozimek, Adam wrote:
> Statalisters,
>
> I have a dataset that is tab delimited, and one of the variables is a string that can be over 244 characters. If I read this using insheet, or inputst, or I think anything else, it truncates this variable. However, there is an aspect of the string variable that I hope will let me get around this: it is delimited by semicolon. Is there a way to select one of the columns in a tab delimited dataset, and read in by parsing it as semi-colon delimited? Is there some otherway to rescue the long variable without the truncation?
Ronán Conroy
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Dublin 2
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