NAME

    Parse::Stata::DtaReader - extract data from Stata 8 and Stata 10 .dta files.

SUMMARY

    Parse::Stata::DtaReader is a module to extract data from Stata 8 and Stata 10 .dta files.

    This distribution also contains the command-line tools dta2csv and dta2sql.

SYNOPSIS

    open my $fileHandle, '<', 'test.dta';
    my $dta = new Parse::Stata::DtaReader($fileHandle);
    print "$dta->{nvar} variables; $dta->{nobs} observations\n";
    print join( ',', @{ $dta->{varlist} } ) . "\n";
    while ( my @a = $dta->readRow ) {
        print join( ',', @a ) . "\n";
    }
    
    See perldoc Parse::Stata::DtaReader for more details.
    
    Look at the source code of dta2csv and dta2sql for code examples.

CHANGES

    See L<https://github.com/f20/parse-stata-dtareader>.    

BUGS

    It works for me, but has not been fully tested.

    All Stata missing values will be converted into a perl undef, losing the information about the type of missing value.

    This code comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY of any kind.

AUTHOR

    Copyright 2007, 2008, 2014 Reckon LLP and Franck Latrémolière.
    L<http://www.reckon.co.uk/staff/franck/>

    Stata .dta format specification from:
        L<http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta_114>
        L<http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta_113>

LICENCE

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl.