st: Output tables, tabulations, etc to a text file

[Jeff Pflueger <jeff@infouse.com>]

I have a do file that goes through a dataset for each US state.
From each state I need a few pieces of information by county. Most of 
this I can do for each state through tabulate:

tabulate county interesting_yes_no_question [fw=weight]

I'd like to take the results of the tabulation and append them to a 
results file that is comma or tab delimited so that by the time the do 
file has gone through all the state datasets, I have a single comma or 
tab delimited file of the results for all of the states.

There seems to be about half a dozen approaches to getting Stata output 
into a file. None seem too clean at this point. Nothing I've seen is too 
elegant yet.

Isn't there an easy way that I can take the results from a command like 
tabulate and then use "file" to append them to the end of a file?

Thanks for any help!
Jeff
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