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Re: st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File
Date
Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:18:30 -0400
Remove the "using filename" phrase from the dictionary. It can also go
in the -infile- statement, as in this example for -help infile2-
. infile using mydict, using(mydata)
Steve
On Aug 17, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Rijo John wrote:
That sounds good. But how will I specify the dictionary file then?
At the moment it starts like
dictionary using f1.txt {
_column(4) var1 %5f
_column(30) var2 %1f
-------------
------------
-----------
}
For the below program to work the dictionary file (dict.dct) should
not contain the file name f1.txt.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> You say you need to append the files together first. Why first?
>
> Something like this should produce the same result.
>
> . save d1, replace emptyok
> . foreach f in f1 f2 f3 {
> . clear
> . infile using dict.txt, using(`f'.txt).
> . gen source = "`f'"
> . append using d1
> . save d1, replace
> }
>
> Steve
>
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