Re: st: Infile several ASCII files

[Jeph Herrin <jeph.herrin@yale.edu>]

Oops, obviously the -tempfile- isn't used or needed.

cheers,
J

Jeph Herrin wrote:
> I think you have to loop over your files, something like:
>
>
> clear all
> local myfiles file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
> foreach F in `myfiles' {
>     tempfile file`F'
>     infile `F'
>     capture confirm file myfile.dta
>     if _rc==0 {
>         append using myfile
>     }
>     save myfile, replace
>     clear
> }
>
> hth,
> Jeph
>
>
> Andrzej Niemierko wrote:
> > 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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