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Re: st: From: Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: From: Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
Date
Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:28:23 +0100
Without information on the _precise_ problem here, I think we are
reduced to guessing. My guess is that you need to go back to the
original *.csv.
What "strange characters"? What does "not recognizable completely"?
Nick
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> My data was in around 50 csv files in one folder. I wanted to merge
> the data into a single stata dataset. So I used the following commands
> in order to first create 50 stata datasets to be merged.
>
>
> fs
>
> foreach file in `r(files)' {
> insheet using `file'
> save `file',replace
> clear
> }
>
> I now discover that the csv files have strange characters and the data
> is not recognizable completely. Do you think it would be possible to
> retrieve my data?
>
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