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Hi Eviews team,

I hope this post finds you all having a happy Christmas. Recently I started to work on some GIS shp files. After exporting some csv file from ArcMap, I always got a problem of import those csv files into Eviews for further analysis. The problem is associated with the POLYGON variables, where Eviews cannot recognise the delimiter and mess up with other variables. No matter how I try to set different delimiters by opening the file / using prg, it still fails. The file is too large to attach here and therefore I provide the downloadable link for accessing the file. Really appreciate it if anyone could help! Many many thanks.

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Cheers,
William

Could you provide a smaller file with the same issue?

Could you provide a smaller file with the same issue?

Thanks Gareth for your prompt response. Sure, here you go; it just extracted the first 1000 rows for your perusal. You can see the mess up variable after the 'POLYGON' variables.

I see. The length of that Polygon variable is just too long. You can alleviate the issue a little by increasing your alpha truncation (Options->General Options->Series and Alphas->Alpha Truncation) to max (around 8000), but you'll still hit some issues.

I see. The length of that Polygon variable is just too long. You can alleviate the issue a little by increasing your alpha truncation (Options->General Options->Series and Alphas->Alpha Truncation) to max (around 8000), but you'll still hit some issues.

Hi Gareth, Thanks for your advice.

I got a dilemma here. I have tried to increase the alpha truncation, and it works well for some of the files. But when it comes to some files, Eviews always stopped running. (See the screenshot). I have then tried to reduce the alpha truncation from 8000 to 7000 (then reducing all the way to 500); more files can pass thru, given I set a lower truncation value. However, in any case, as long as I go more than 200, the programme stops running at some points. From my trial, I think it needs at least 5000-6000 to ensure most of the variables couldn't mess up.

Can I try to import the csv without those polygon variables? Will it avoid the problem?

Grateful for your advice on how I can solve this dilemma, as I really want to use Eviews to continue my analysis. Many thanks in advance.

Yes, you could drop that variable if you don't need it.