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st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Problems with insheet with non-standard delimiter ø
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Lucas Ferreira Mation <[email protected]>
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st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Problems with insheet with non-standard delimiter ø
Date
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:34:42 -0300
. insheet using "foobar.txt" ,delim(`= char(248)') clear // does not work.
The problem is that insheet will not recognize the "ø" (`=
char(248)') in the text. For some reason "insheet" will interpret it
as two characters: "ø" ( `=char(195)' and `=char(184)' ) and
the delimiters option will not accept two characters as delimiters. So
the solution was first to replace ø with ø . Like this :
. local dat_name example_dataset.txt
. filefilter `dat_name'.txt `dat_name'2.txt , from(`= char(195)'`=
char(184)') to (`= char(248)')
. insheet using `dat_name'2.txt ,delim(`= char(248)') clear
this kind of works, but some lines became corrupted. I´ll try to
export a better file in MSsql Server, with double quotes encapsulating
text fields.
again thank very much
Lucas
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:43 AM, daniel klein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Lucas,
>
> I copied your example from the Statalist archives. Have a look at
> Stata's -char()- function. If you know the ASCII code of the
> delimiter, you may code something like
>
> . insheet using "foobar.txt" ,delim(`= char(248)') clear
>
> where you replace 248 with the ASCII code. Number 248 is my guess,
> based on the output you get from -asciiplot- (Blasnik, Juul, Cox)
> available from the SSC.
>
> Also, you should update to Stata 11.2.
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
> --
> Dear Daniel,
>
> thank you for the answer. I tried on my desktop: Windows 7
> Professional with Stata 11.1 and on a Sever with Windows Server 2003
> and Stata 10.1. Neither works.
>
> it is funny how these letters keep changing.
> In my original database and email I had the letter ř (which is printed
> typing : ALT +155 (with the numbers keyboard part)
> In your code bellow, at least the way I see it here, you have used
> the letter shown here:
> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=0173
>
> regards
> Lucas
>
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