there is no way to get append to recognize a wild card. However, you
can use the "dir" extended function. Type
help extended_fcn
example:
local x : dir "c:\mydir" "*.dta"
foreach d of local x {
cap append using appendfilename
save appendfilename, replace
}
Mingfeng Lin wrote:
Greetings!
I am wondering if there's a straightforward way to append a large
number of .dta files into one file using Stata? The -append- command
seems to disallow wildcards in the file names. I do find one method
from UCLA's ATS website,
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/append_many_files.htm
but I'm still hoping there's an easier way, or somehow getting the
-append- command to recognize the wildcards - so that I could just
simply type
append using *.dta
Thanks :)
Mingfeng
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Yale University
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