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Re: st: How to transfer strings in different rows of a cell into different observations
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to transfer strings in different rows of a cell into different observations
Date
Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:28:39 +0100
The user-written command Joseph is recalling may be -charlist- (SSC).
Nick
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On 23 June 2013 13:43, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> XIAOFEI XING wrote:
>
> . . . My question is about how to split one cell into different observations.
>
> I import data from excel, if a cell contain following content,
> A A
> B
> C
> Stata will treat the cell into one observations rather than three observations
>
> I want to use state to transfer them into different observations.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Your Excel worksheet appears to have carriage returns or line feeds, or their
> combination, inside the cell. Try using -split-, parsing on one or the other
> character (or their combination) and then -reshape-.
>
> I recall that there's a user-written command that reveals the ASCII characters
> inside an observation. I've forgotten what its name is, but you can use
> -indexnot()-or -strpos()- with -char(10)- and -char(13)- to accomplish the same
> thing.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
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