RE: st: Infile several ASCII files

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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" infile `F'"




-infile- requires a mandatory -varlist-, though, and the -using- qualifier:

- infile var1 var2 using `F'-

HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: Mittwoch, 31. März 2010 21:41
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Infile several ASCII files

Oops, obviously the -tempfile- isn't used or needed.

cheers,
J

Jeph Herrin wrote:
> I think you have to loop over your files, something like:
> 
> 
> clear all
> local myfiles file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
> foreach F in `myfiles' {
>     tempfile file`F'
>     infile `F'
>     capture confirm file myfile.dta
>     if _rc==0 {
>         append using myfile
>     }
>     save myfile, replace
>     clear
> }
> 
> hth,
> Jeph
> 
> 
> Andrzej Niemierko wrote:
>> I have a data management problem. My data are stored in several ASCII 
>> (.txt)
>> files. Each file has the same number of observations (in the same 
>> order). I
>> can -infile- each file individually, but I would like to -infile- all of
>> them and combine them into a one dataset. I cannot figure out how to 
>> do it
>> as -infile- refuses to work if data are already in memory. I suspect that
>> someone has already faced that problem and knows the solution. Any ideas?
>> Andrzej
>>
>>
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