st: RE: Infile several ASCII files

["Cohen, Elan" <cohened@upmc.edu>]

I like to use tempfiles here.  After -infile-ing each txt file, try something like:

tempfile t1
save `t1', replace

Repeat for each file (changing `t1' to `t2', etc).  Once they've all been saved, you can either -merge- or -append- depending on the structure of your data, e.g.:

clear all
append using `t1' `t2' `t3'


- Elan
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Andrzej Niemierko
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 14:54
> To: Stata
> Subject: st: Infile several ASCII files
> 
> I have a data management problem. My data are stored in 
> several ASCII (.txt)
> files. Each file has the same number of observations (in the 
> same order). I
> can -infile- each file individually, but I would like to 
> -infile- all of
> them and combine them into a one dataset. I cannot figure out 
> how to do it
> as -infile- refuses to work if data are already in memory. I 
> suspect that
> someone has already faced that problem and knows the 
> solution. Any ideas?
> Andrzej
> 
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