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Re: st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File


From   Rijo John <[email protected]>
To   stata <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Append the Contents of Fixed Width Text File
Date   Sun, 18 Aug 2013 01:03:24 +0530

Thanks. That worked.

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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