/usr/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/ADD-FILES.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<!-- This manual is for GNU PSPP version 0.8.4,
software for statistical analysis.

Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License". -->
<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.2, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<title>PSPP: ADD FILES</title>

<meta name="description" content="PSPP: ADD FILES">
<meta name="keywords" content="PSPP: ADD FILES">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top">
<link href="Function-Index.html#Function-Index" rel="index" title="Function Index">
<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
<link href="Combining-Data-Files.html#Combining-Data-Files" rel="up" title="Combining Data Files">
<link href="MATCH-FILES.html#MATCH-FILES" rel="next" title="MATCH FILES">
<link href="Combining-Files-Common-Syntax.html#Combining-Files-Common-Syntax" rel="prev" title="Combining Files Common Syntax">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller}
div.display {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.example {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.indentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smallindentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em; font-size: smaller}
div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
kbd {font-style:oblique}
pre.display {font-family: inherit}
pre.format {font-family: inherit}
pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif}
pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif}
pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller}
pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller}
pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller}
pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller}
span.nocodebreak {white-space:nowrap}
span.nolinebreak {white-space:nowrap}
span.roman {font-family:serif; font-weight:normal}
span.sansserif {font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal}
ul.no-bullet {list-style: none}
-->
</style>


</head>

<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000">
<a name="ADD-FILES"></a>
<div class="header">
<p>
Next: <a href="MATCH-FILES.html#MATCH-FILES" accesskey="n" rel="next">MATCH FILES</a>, Previous: <a href="Combining-Files-Common-Syntax.html#Combining-Files-Common-Syntax" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Combining Files Common Syntax</a>, Up: <a href="Combining-Data-Files.html#Combining-Data-Files" accesskey="u" rel="up">Combining Data Files</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Function-Index.html#Function-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
</div>
<hr>
<a name="ADD-FILES-1"></a>
<h3 class="section">10.2 ADD FILES</h3>
<a name="index-ADD-FILES"></a>

<div class="display">
<pre class="display">ADD FILES

Per input file:
        /FILE={*,&rsquo;<var>file_name</var>&rsquo;}
        [/RENAME=(<var>src_names</var>=<var>target_names</var>)&hellip;]
        [/IN=<var>var_name</var>]
        [/SORT]

Once per command:
        [/BY <var>var_list</var>[({D|A})] [<var>var_list</var>[({D|A})]&hellip;]]
        [/DROP=<var>var_list</var>]
        [/KEEP=<var>var_list</var>]
        [/FIRST=<var>var_name</var>]
        [/LAST=<var>var_name</var>]
        [/MAP]
</pre></div>

<p><code>ADD FILES</code> adds cases from multiple input files.  The output,
which replaces the active dataset, consists all of the cases in all of
the input files.
</p>
<p><code>ADD FILES</code> shares the bulk of its syntax with other <small>PSPP</small> commands for
combining multiple data files.  See <a href="Combining-Files-Common-Syntax.html#Combining-Files-Common-Syntax">Combining Files Common Syntax</a>,
above, for an explanation of this common syntax.
</p>
<p>When <code>BY</code> is not used, the output of <code>ADD FILES</code> consists of all the cases
from the first input file specified, followed by all the cases from
the second file specified, and so on.  When <code>BY</code> is used, the output is
additionally sorted on the <code>BY</code> variables.
</p>
<p>When <code>ADD FILES</code> creates an output case, variables that are not part of
the input file from which the case was drawn are set to the
system-missing value for numeric variables or spaces for string
variables.
</p>



</body>
</html>
pspp 0.8.4-1 / usr / share / doc / pspp / pspp.html / ADD-FILES.html
