Re: st: defining a local that contains all of the variables

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Try this.

unab varlist: _all

See also, -help unab-.

-- David

At 03:11 PM 10/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I would like to define a local that contains the names of all of the
> variables in my dataset. I would like to write something like this:
>
> local varlist: _all     or      local varlist "*"
>
> but these commands do not work. I can perform this using
>
> local varlist "A1-Z100"
>
> but I would like to do for a large number of files where the variable
> names are different in each dataset and they are not sorted in
> alphabetical order.
>
>
> Dimitriy V. Masterov
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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