Dear statalist,

I have a txt file which I would like to import in stata. The delimiter I use is "§". When I upload the file the data looks fine in the preview screen (see image). But when I actually import the data, all the values for all the variables in the txt are placed under one single variable with § staying between each value.


One potential reason I could think of is because stata doesn't recognize "§" as a valid delimiter, but intuitively it should then also not be recognized in the preview screen I guess.

The output I get in the results window is:
Code:
import delimited D:\users\gianni.spolverato\Desktop\Results_GS_delimiter.txt, delimiter("§") clear 
(1 var, 1206758 obs)
Could anyone help me further?

Thank you in advance for your time.

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