st: importing data from matlab

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I try to fix insheeting with Stata 12 on Unix a text file I saved with
Matlab, but something is off. Each line has 23 numbers for my 23
variables, and the file has 261000 lines, as my data set, but I still
have the error:
.     insheet `peervarsL1' using fileL1.txt,  clear nonames
too many variables specified
error in line 261001 of file
r(103);

My file starts like
. !head fileL1.txt

0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00

and ends without an end-of-line character, simply with the last zero.

The line number is:
. !wc fileL1.txt

  261000  6003000 96309000 fileL1.txt

The Matlab R2011b command read
save fileL1 vL1 -ASCII;

The Stata command tried to be
insheet `peervarsL1' using fileL1.txt,  clear nonames

I think I checked the relevant FAQ, and much of the web.

Thanks for any quick thoughts!

Laszlo
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