Ada Ma
>
> Thanks for the help offered earlier. I have yet another
> problem. This time
> I'm writing a program that loops through 99 files and then
> merge them all
> together in the end. I want to create a varible that
> equals to the value of
> the local variable, so that I can tell which file the
> observation originally
> comes from.
>
> e.g. I have:
>
> local i=1989
> while i<2000 {
> use `i'
> gen year=`i'
> save `i', replace
> clear
> }
What's the problem?
BTW, sounds more an -append- job than
a -merge- job to me.
Nick
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