Wanli,
you must take care that you start with an empty dataset before you
make use of insheet. This could be a possible reason for the failure
of the insheet command. However, it would be generally helpful if you
could provide some of the output including the error message.
Regards,
sebastian
On 6/6/06, Wanli Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
I just cannot find the old thread about this.
I have some files called 1993.txt ... 2003.txt.
1. I want to insheet the files by "foreach" or "forvalues".
If I do:
forvalues i of 1993(1)2003 {
insheet using c:\`i'.txt
...
}
It is not working. I also tried other ways and cannot figure how. Invalid
syntax.
2. within each file processing, I need to do "gen year=`i'"
3. after the processing, I need to save the file as ...\`i'.dta.
I am obviously stuck at the "insheet" step but maybe I need to change 2 and
3 also? I appreciate your help. Thanks.
Wanli
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