Text Data Files (MATCH FILES command)
You can add variables from one or more text data
files by reading the files into IBM® SPSS® Statistics (with DATA LIST
or GET DATA
), defining dataset names for each
file (DATASET NAME
command),
and then using MATCH FILES
to
add the cases from each file.
Example
DATA LIST FILE="/data/textdata1.txt"
/id 1-3 var1 5-7 var2 9-12.
SORT CASES by ID.
DATASET NAME file1.
DATA LIST FILE="/data/textdata2.txt"
/id 1-3 var3 5-9 var4 11-15.
SORT CASES BY ID.
DATASET NAME file2.
DATA LIST FILE="/data/textdata3.txt"
/id 1-3 var5 5-6 var6 8-10.
DATASET NAME file3.
MATCH FILES FILE='file1'
/FILE='file2'
/FILE='file3'
/BY id.
SAVE OUTFILE='/data/combined_data.sav'.