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| From | Abhimanyu Arora <abhimanyu.arora1987@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: multiple merging |
| Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:22:24 +0200 |
Dear statalist I have datasets which I need to merge into a single file. All files have a (string) variable that uniquely identifies observations in the files. There are two user-written commands I found in the SSC—mergeall (Ryan Knight) and nmerge(Michael N. Mitchell). I am facing problems with both. In the first case I get a type mismatch error even though I specify the string option with force In the second case I am unable to get my file names (except the first file) in a macro. I used fs(Nick Cox) get the file names in r(files). Next I type in gettoken first `r(files)' : `r(files)' That shows the following error _"filename1.dta invalid name I tried using extended macro function to clean up the quotes but to no avail. Could you please help? Many thanks Abhimanyu * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/