I have recently been using Nick Cox's -renvars- command for similar sorts of
renaming puzzles. Try .findit renvars to get an installation module.
-JW
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: How to rename these variables?
Dear all,
I have a set of variables that I want to rename.
I want to transform these v1_1 v2_1 v1_2 v2_2 etc..
to v1_01 v2_01 v1_02 v2_02 etc...
I try the lenght, index, and substr functions. But I do not know
how to concatenate the results.
gen l = length("v_01")
sum l
gen p = index("v0_1","_")
sum p
if ( l - p == 1 ) { di "Difference is 1" }
gen str4 vr = substr("v0_1",1,3)
tab vr
gen str1 vl = substr("v0_1",1,l)
tab vl
replace vl = substr("v0_1",l,1)
tab vl
Is there any way to do this? Stata7 seems not to understand the concat()
function.
Best.
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