Append after using command 'Chunky'

[Ciaran OFlynn]

Hi,

After using the command 'Chunky' to split a database into maneagable sizes, and then further splitting each part by country, I am left with 30 'part' files per country (US_part1.....part32 / AU_part1....part32) etc.

The code I want to use to recontruct these into country datasets is

clear

use US_part1.dta
 
 forvalues  i = 2 / 32 {
    append using US_part`i'
    
}
  
 save US.dta

My question is: In the forvalues statement, do I use 1/32 or 2/32?

Thanks,

Ciaran

[William Lisowski]

Since you already have US_part1 in memory, you do not want to append it to itself. What you have is correct.