EpiData Entry most likely does not recognize *.inc. Assume that your POSTCODE.INC file has two fields: name postcode

where NAME is the place and POSTCODE its postal code. Make a text file, eg NAMECODE.TXT containing only these two fields, semi-colon delimited. Then make a QES file, e.g., NAMECODE.QES with just two fields:

name _________________ postcode ####

Then use the import function to import the NAMECODE.TXT file.

Now edit the NAMECODE.CHK file so that:

name key 1 end

postcode key 2 end

Go now to your MAINFILE.REC and edit the MAINFILE.CHK in the appropriate place to:

postalname COMMENT LEGAL namecode.rec SHOW TYPE COMMENT postalcode END

postalcode NOENTER END

(assuming you have these two fields). Now the data entry person gets the external file as a label block, with POSTALNAME as the field value that can be found quickly, and the POSTALCODE as the value label, written into the appropriate field.

Hans

epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:

We are building a data-entry system for the registration of medical contact for the youth in our organisation. Therefore we need several hundreds of schoolcodes and zipcodes (postcode).

I want to use an externel file POSTCODE.INC whith the data and used the following syntax:

LABELBLOCK LABEL_POSTCODE INCLUDE POSTCODE.INC END

POSTCODE LEGAL USE LABEL_POSTCODE MUSTENTER END

But I only get errors.

Someone has a solution?

Franco L. Sanavro