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st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File
From
Rijo John <[email protected]>
To
stata <[email protected]>
Subject
st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File
Date
Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:52:22 +0530
Dear Statalist
I have several large fixed with data files, one for each state. These
are data files where each field has a fixed column location and width,
rather than having the start and end of the field marked by a
delimiter character, as in delimited ASCII files. Usually we write a
dictionary program to extract only the columns we want from any given
fixed width file. I need to append these together to one large file
before I use dictionary on that large file. The appended file should
also have a variable indicating which dataset the particular
observations originally belonged.
Thank your for your help,
Rijo John.
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