Thank you Kyle! I never used extended functions before - this is very
neat. You left out "files" on the first line, but after I add that
in, it works great!
The first line should be
local x : dir "C:\mydir" files "*.dta"
Thanks again!
Mingfeng
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Kyle Hood <[email protected]> wrote:
> of course, I left out a critical command:
>
> local x : dir "c:\mydir" "*.dta"
> cd c:\mydir
>
> foreach d of local x {
> use `d', clear
> cap append using appendfilename
> save appendfilename, replace
> }
>
> Kyle Hood wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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