st: Multiple TXT DATA without var name: how to read. PLEASE HELP

[statauser2010 <dangphuongtrang@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
I got a dataset which contains 35 txt files which I need to read, merge them
all together. However, as they are seperated, some files are variable names,
others contain only number. For example:

Example of file with variable names: 
"FILE LAYOUT FOR INSTITUTION INFORMATION
                             DATA DELIMITED BY COMMAS
                ALPHANUMERIC VALUES ARE ENCLOSED IN DOUBLE QUOTES
                                    
                                    
         VARIABLE    FIELD  DEC.        
             NAME    TYPE   POS.  VARIABLE DESCRIPTION 
  ---------------  -------  ----  --------------------------------------
           SYSTEM  Numeric     0  System Code
             DIST  Numeric     0  District Code
            ASSOC  Numeric     0  Association Code
            MONTH  Numeric     0  Month of Report
             YEAR  Numeric     0  Year of Report
           UNINUM  Numeric     0  System, district, and Association
                                   codes concatenated
        SHORTNAME  Alphanum.   0  Institution short name
        MAIL_ADDR  Alphanum.   0  Mailing address
      STREET_ADDR  Alphanum.   0  Street address
             CITY  Alphanum.   0  City name
            STATE  Alphanum.   0  State name
              ZIP  Alphanum.   0  Zip code"

Another file contains:
"FILE LAYOUT FOR SCHEDULE RC-M OTHER PROPERTY OWNED 
                       ACTIVITY RECONCILEMENT
                      DATA DELIMITED BY COMMAS
                                                
                                   
       VARIABLE    FIELD  DEC.          
           NAME     TYPE  POS.  VARIABLE DESCRIPTION
  -------------  -------  ----  ---------------------
         SYSTEM  Numeric     0  System Code   
           DIST  Numeric     0  District Code  
          ASSOC  Numeric     0  Association Code
          MONTH  Numeric     0  Month of Report
           YEAR  Numeric     0  Year of Report
         UNINUM  Numeric     0  System, District, and Association   
                                 codes concatenated
    ACQPROPBBAL  Numeric     0  Other Property Owned-Beginning Balance
  TRANSACQPROPT  Numeric     0  Gross Amounts Transferred in from
                                 Other Property Owned
     ACQPROPDEP  Numeric     0  Amounts Depreciated on Other
                                 Property Owned
    ACQPROPDISP  Numeric     0  Properties Disposed of
  CHGOFFACQPROP  Numeric     0  Net chargeoffs/write-ups on Other
                                 Property Owned
       OACQPROP  Numeric     0  Other - Other Property Owned
        ACQPROP  Numeric     0  Other Property Owned-Ending Balance"

etc,
One example of file with number only:
"4, 9, 3,03,2000, 409003, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
95557, 5514, 0, 0
 4, 9, 4,03,2000, 409004, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
20406, 466, 0, 0
 4, 9, 11,03,2000, 409011, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
24365, 2432, 0, 0
 4, 9, 21,03,2000, 409021, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
6992, 208, 0, 0
 4, 9, 24,03,2000, 409024, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
10691, 1018, 0, 0
 4, 9, 26,03,2000, 409026, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
35608, 870, 0, 0
 4, 9, 34,03,2000, 409034, 277, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
13381, 341, 0, 0
 4, 9, 42,03,2000, 409042, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
34010, 1242, 0, 0
 4, 9, 45,03,2000, 409045, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
14353, 794, 0, 0
 4, 9, 48,03,2000, 409048, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,, 0,
64705, 2268, 0, 0"

Could anyone tell me how to:
1)  which command to read file which contains variable names only ( example
1)?
 2) how to know which variable to use for each number in file with number (
example 3), I have about 18 files which contain number only, the rest of
them contains variable? FYI: All those files are from a banking call report.

Thanks so much for your help.


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