Robert - Thanks alot for the help. I was confused. It is clearer now.
Quick question. If the forms are by year and month and I am sure there will NOT be more than 10K forms within a given month (but there maybe more than 10K within a given year), is there an easy way to write a loop instead of writing out all the possible combinations of year*month in the first step.
Specifically:
Thanks in advance.
Quick question. If the forms are by year and month and I am sure there will NOT be more than 10K forms within a given month (but there maybe more than 10K within a given year), is there an easy way to write a loop instead of writing out all the possible combinations of year*month in the first step.
Specifically:
Code:
clear all input str18 form "200501*_form1.txt" "200502*_form1.txt" "200503*_form1.txt" "200504*_form1.txt" "200505*_form1.txt" "200506*_form1.txt" "200507*_form1.txt" "200508*_form1.txt" "200509*_form1.txt" "200510*_form1.txt" "200511*_form1.txt" "200512*_form1.txt" "200601*_form1.txt" end
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