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| From | Carolina Herrera <cherrera@healthcostinstitute.org> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Reading in massive pipe-delimited files |
| Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:36:31 -0500 |
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 > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Carolina-Nicole S. Herrera Director of Research Health Care Cost Institute 1310 G Street NW Suite 720 Washington, DC 20005 w. www.healthcostinstitute.org p. 571-257-3837 e. cherrera@healthcostinstitute.org * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/