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Re: st: Difficulty with importing form Excel
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Difficulty with importing form Excel
Date
Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:59 +0100
-fs- is from SSC. Please remember to explain where user-written
programs you refer to come from.
The " character before `name' looks to be in the wrong place.
Also, avoid using backslashes just before macro references for reasons
documented in
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0042 and indeed
in the manual.
I'd try
import excel using "D:\Users\n11094\Desktop\Rahavard Returns\New
folder/`name'", sheet("Sheet1"), clear
Nick
[email protected]
On 24 May 2013 18:31, Nima Darbari <[email protected]> wrote:
> to change their format to .dta. I am trying different variants of the
> code below but I always recieve error messages like 'Invalid 1' and I
> am not even successful with making Stata read even one file. I have
> already spent half of day on it so any comment is highly appreciated.
>
> set more off
> fs
> foreach name in `r(files)'{
> import excel using "D:\Users\n11094\Desktop\Rahavard Returns\New
> folder\"`name', sheet("Sheet1"), clear
> keep A G
> drop in 1
> save `name'
> }
>
> Something else which is strange to me is that apparently there is a
> difference between "Import excl" and "Import excel using" in Stata.
> The first command works well in command window but it doesnt work in
> .do files!
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