CONVERT_TOP_LINES: Stata module to handle leading lines of text file

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: This can be used after insheet, to neaten the variable names and to assign variable labels, when the second line of the raw data file contains descriptive information suitable for labels, and these values interfered with the functioning of insheet.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: convert_top_lines; convert; raw data; label; variable name; insheet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05-23
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install convert_top_lines". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/convert_top_lines.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/convert_top_lines.hlp help file (text/plain)

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