Re: st: Reading in massive pipe-delimited files

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

it is not clear to me why a particular delimiter should cause problems
here; have you looked at -h import delimited- which will show you how to
restrict either rows or columns; note that -insheet- has been replaced
with -import delimited- and that's what you should use if you have an
up-to-date Stata (and if you don't you need to tell us what version you
are using)

Rich

On 1/31/14, 4:24 PM, Carolina Herrera wrote:
> Hello Statalist!
> 
> I am working on a project with a pipe-delimited file that is about
> 36GB. Let's assume that I have enough memory on my server to process
> this data. I want to insheet it into smaller datasets. The pipes,
> however, are making my life very difficult.
> 
> Using filefilter
> (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-10/msg00796.html) to
> replace pipes with spaces has more or less locked up the server. Any
> other suggestions that might work better?
> 
> thanks,
> Carolina
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