Richard, You can use Analysis to merge the files. It's easy to do manually:
cd c:\directory with the files read file1 append file2 append file3 * etc savedata mergefile close
If your file names are always the same, you can put those commands into a .pgm file to do this.
If the file names change, it can be semi-automated. Using good old DOS, it is relatively simple to have a batch file create the .pgm file to do this. With .pgm files, you can also do the append for any number of files in a directory in a way that you only have to enter the file names one at a time. (more complicated, but I've done it).
Jamie Hockin Public Health Agency of Canada
epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
I have several people entering data to a common structure at different sites. They email me the .rec files which I then combine into one file periodically. It seems as though I need to combine the files 2 at a time. Is it possible to combine them in one step? Are commands available such that a command file could do the task? Another option is to merge the files in SAS after converting the file 2 at a time, but that, too, would take several steps.
Richard Herrell NIMH
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