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st: reading in long string variables (yet again)
From
Steve Nakoneshny <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: reading in long string variables (yet again)
Date
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:57:42 -0600
Good morning Statalisters,
Our database stores sequential followup data on patients in 20 character chunks in the format "MM/DD/YYYY {1} [1:1]" and each chunk is parsed by ";". These data are stored in a single string variable in the table, with the most recent update being appended to the right hand side. This causes a problem when importing to Stata given the 244 character limit on string variables as we are only interested in using the right-most chunk.
Is it possible to have Stata read in this string variable from the right hand side only? Or failing that, read in an ID variable (or two) as is and read in the string variable by parsing on ";"? I attempted to do this using -insheet- with the -delim(;)- option, but that applies to the whole dataset and not just a single variable.