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st: reading in data where delimiter is replaced with return character
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"Airey, David C" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: reading in data where delimiter is replaced with return character
Date
Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:58:17 -0500
.
When copying tables from the web and pasting, files can lose delimiters (if they had any).
So a file that looks like this online with var header included:
A B C
one 1 2
three 3 4
becomes this when pasted:
A
B
C
one
1
2
three
3
4
What Stata command handles this format?
The infile command has a byvariable(#) option, but this is for data like:
A one three
B 1 3
C 2 4
-Dave
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