> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: removing prefix
>
> I have a data set which uses different variable prefixes for different
> waves of the panel. So the variable name of the first wave is:
> a_varname
>
> To work with all the waves using the same commands I would like to
> remove the different prefixes (a_ for the first wave, b_ for the
> second and so on). To this end I used the "renpfix" command. However I
> could not figure out how I could replace the prefix for "nothing",
> i.e. I want to change
>
> a_varname ===> varname
>
> How can that be done?
