Re: st: append multiple data sets

[Devra Golbe <dgolbe@optonline.net>]

findit append multiple
leads to Roger Newson's dsconcat, which concatonates multiple Stata 
datasets into memory.  Perhaps this will suit your needs.

Devra Golbe
devra.golbe at hunter.cuny.edu

At 11:39 AM 8/24/2004, you wrote:

> I'm trying to append multiple datasets, but "append using" only adds two
> datasets at a time. I tried the following program to append "timc1.dta",
> "timc2.dta", "timc3.dta"... in one step, but it only appends two datasets.
>
> ********************************
> program define apx
>         local i = 1
>         while `i'<=10 {
>                 use timc`i', clear
>                 append using timc`i'
>                 local i = `i' + 1
>         }
> end
> apx
> ********************************
>
> I'll appreciate any suggestions on how to accomplish this task.
>
> Leonelo Bautista
>
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