Hello,
I use Stata 13.1 in a network environment.
I have to combine multiple excel files from certain directories on our server. (In the moment: 536 files). I wrote a routine to import the excel files, but 20 of 536 files produce an Error 603 which means, file exists, but cannot be opened.
All Excel files have been produced by a script (not in stata), so one should assume that either no file or all files are importable.
After opening one of the problem-causing files in Excel and saving it anew, the file could be imported in Stata. But as I have to deal with a host of excel files which change often and have to be imported anew, the solution to the problem must be an automatic one.
I screened the Internet and the Stata list and saw that other people had the same problem, but I did not find a solution that was to be included in a stata do-file and executed automatically.
I add the syntax I use, but I don't think it is a problem of my syntax, because most of the excel files open ok.
I hope someone knows the reason for the problem which I suppose lying in the Excel file. Or maybe it is caused by my Stata settings or something like that.
Klaudia
I use Stata 13.1 in a network environment.
I have to combine multiple excel files from certain directories on our server. (In the moment: 536 files). I wrote a routine to import the excel files, but 20 of 536 files produce an Error 603 which means, file exists, but cannot be opened.
All Excel files have been produced by a script (not in stata), so one should assume that either no file or all files are importable.
After opening one of the problem-causing files in Excel and saving it anew, the file could be imported in Stata. But as I have to deal with a host of excel files which change often and have to be imported anew, the solution to the problem must be an automatic one.
I screened the Internet and the Stata list and saw that other people had the same problem, but I did not find a solution that was to be included in a stata do-file and executed automatically.
I add the syntax I use, but I don't think it is a problem of my syntax, because most of the excel files open ok.
I hope someone knows the reason for the problem which I suppose lying in the Excel file. Or maybe it is caused by my Stata settings or something like that.
Klaudia
Code:
clear
set more off
local pfad "/home/soepdist" /* Main path (stone) */
/* Directories containing Excel-Files */
local pfad1 "`pfad'/labels_en"
local pfad3 "`pfad'/make_v31/labels_en/xls"
local sprlist = "pfad1 pfad3"
foreach spr in `sprlist' {
clear
local dirct "``spr''" /* dirct: Path to one of the SOEP source-files directories */
local allf : dir "`dirct'" files "*.xls", respect
local allf = subinstr(`"`allf'"',`"""',"",.) /* eliminate double quotes */
local allf = subinstr(`"`allf'"',".xls","",.) /* eliminate file type appendix */
local nds : word count `allf'
local probl ""
forvalues i = 1(1)`nds' {
local datei = word("`allf'", `i')
capture import excel using "`dirct'/`datei'.xls", describe
local c = _rc
if `c' != 0 {
if `c' == 603 {
display " "_n ///
"Error `c': File `dirct'/`datei' was found but failed to open properly"
local probl = "`probl'" + " `datei'"
}
else {
display " "_n ///
display "Error `c'"
}
}
if `c' == 0 {
import excel using "`dirct'/`datei'.xls", describe
}
}
local nf : word count `probl'
if `nf' > 0 {
display " "_n ///
"The following `nf' Excel files from `dirct' could not be imported, ${S_DATE} : "_n ///
"`probl'"_n ///
" "
}
}