Importing .txt file from a website to Stata

[joseph wells]

Hi,
Below is a website that is hosting a .txt file. I would like to download the data directly from the website into Stata.


https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/map...nty20_natl.txt

I used the website below as a reference.

https://www.stata.com/links/stata-ba...-data-website/

This is the command I tried but it was not successful.

infix using "https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt"

Does anyone know how to get this data into Stata? Thanks.

[Clyde Schechter]

The file in question is not a fixed-format text file. It is delimited, by |. So -infix- cannot deal with it.

import delimited using https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt

does it for you.