OOPS again that was *not* intended for the list. Working under a a lot of pressure and need a cup of coffee!

Art

Art Kendall wrote: > I haven't had time yet to get PYTHON under my belt. However I believe > this should be a straight forward PYTHON application. > > I have a few hundred files (several years for each US State). I would > like to concatenate the variable view information into a single file. > What I would like to end up with is a system file with a variable for > the name of the source file and variables for the name, type, . . . > decimals. > The result would be one file with "stacked" variable views. > > If there were a PYTHON wrapper, it would take each file in a > list, extract the variable view information, add a column containing > the name of the file, and concatenate the info into a system data file > as a "master file". > > source Position Name Type . . . decimals > AL2004.sas7bdat 1 ID string . . . > AL2004.sas7bdat 2 State string . . . > AK2004.sas7bdat 3 County string . . . > AK2003.sas7bdat 4 Zip numeric . . . > WV2005.sas7bdat 500 Math numeric . . . > > Please let me know if you can do this. > Shall we say the same rate as last time? > > Also please send me your SSN and address for the 1099. > > > Art Kendall > Social Research Consultants > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to > LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command > INFO REFCARD > >

===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD