Re: st: easier way to rename?

[Kaleb Michaud <kaleb@arthritis-research.org>]

Try renvars.ado (findit renvars)
I use it quite a bit for things like this.
Kaleb...

At 05:34 PM 9/13/2002 -0400, Radu Ban wrote:
> I want to rename my variables (which now have long names since they come
> from an excel sheet). I would like to know if there is a quick way to rename
> a recurring word to an abbreviation.
> For example, a lot of my variables contain the word 'households' and I would
> like to rename it to 'hh' for easier access later. I know there's renpfix,
> but this only takes care of characters at the start of the variable name.
> Thank you,
>
> Radu Ban
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