Your example here, if literal, will fail
because of the difference between `variable'
and `variablen'.
-unab- is unnecessary here.
foreach x of var * {
rename `x' v_`x'
}
should work.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Hans J.
> Baumgartner
> Sent: 24 May 2004 17:56
> To: statalist
> Subject: st: common prefix to all variables
>
>
> Hello statalist,
>
> I would like to give all variables a common prefix.
>
> I thought first of using unab in a foreach loop:
>
> unab variable : _all
> foreach x in `variablen' {
> rename `x' v_`x'
> }
>
> Although Stata correctly unabbreviates my varlist, I cannot call this
> varlist in a foreach loop nor in a for any loop.
>
> All suggestions are welcomed
>
> Best wishes
> Hans
>
>
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> DIW Berlin
> German Institute for Economic Research
> Dept. Public Economics
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