Re: st: Reading in massive pipe-delimited files

[Carolina Herrera <cherrera@healthcostinstitute.org>]

Rich,
this was tremendously helpful. I have Stata 13 and was unaware of the command.
thank you!
Carolina

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Richard Goldstein
<richgold@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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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