Re: st: Getting rid of binary codes so I can read in files - reposted

["Dimitriy V. Masterov" <dvmaster@gmail.com>]

Orian,

I sent a response to Statalist on Jan 13, but for some reason it does
not show up in the archives, so I am sending it again in case it might
prove helpful.

I'm not sure if you're specifying the binary zero character correctly. Try
"filefilter file1 file2, from(\0) to() replace".

I am also not sure what you mean by "hangs". 2 million characters may
take a bit of time to replace.

It may also be helpful to see what the first few rows of your data
look like (before and after the filefilter). A good command for that
is chunky with the peek option from ssc:

ssc install chunky
chunky using file1or2.txt, peek(5)

HTH,
DVM
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