Hey everyone,
I'm having an interesting issue insheeting a very large .csv dataset. One of the fields consists of a series of random characters which sporadically contain DOS end-of-file markers. These EOF markers inevitably stop the import leading to truncated data. If I could open the .csv file I could replace the EOF characters with something else, but it's too big to open in any program that I've tried. I know in SAS there is an option to ignore the EOF markers (IGNOREDOSEOF). Is there anything like this in Stata? If I had SAS I could import, then just export a .dta, but I don't. Any ideas?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I'm having an interesting issue insheeting a very large .csv dataset. One of the fields consists of a series of random characters which sporadically contain DOS end-of-file markers. These EOF markers inevitably stop the import leading to truncated data. If I could open the .csv file I could replace the EOF characters with something else, but it's too big to open in any program that I've tried. I know in SAS there is an option to ignore the EOF markers (IGNOREDOSEOF). Is there anything like this in Stata? If I had SAS I could import, then just export a .dta, but I don't. Any ideas?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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