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E-Prime User’s Guide
Chapter 5: Data Handling
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Figure 1. Single folder organization.
Figure 2. Subfolder organization, organizing data files for subjects
receiving different conditions.
5.2.3 Merge
E-Merge offers two merge operation options: Standard and Recursive. The Standard merge
operation (demonstrated in the Getting Started Guide) merges data files from a single folder into
a target file. This is the most common type of merge operation. The Recursive merge operation
merges data files existing in separate subfolders into a target file. The Recursive merge
operation permits the merging of files located in multiple subfolders using a single merge
operation, rather than requiring multiple Standard merge operations.
5.2.3.1 Standard
To merge data files in E-Merge using the Standard merge operation, open the data folder in the
Folder Tree, select the files to merge in the File List view, and click the Merge button to merge.
Note, the images used throughout this example reflect operations upon data files included with
the E-Prime installation. With the default installation, these files exist in the C:\My
Experiments\Tutorials\Data folder.
Open Folder
Within E-Merge (refer to the Getting Started Guide for information concerning launching the E-
Merge application), click on the folder containing the data files in the Folder Tree. When the
folder is selected, the files in that folder will be displayed in the File List.