Strictly the -foreach- examples do what
you want if and only if the quoted string
occurs as a suffix and not otherwise.
For example,
_ja_ja
would get renamed to
_1_ja
by the first loop.
Nick
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 06 December 2004 23:09
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: modification on <renpfix>?
>
>
> Yes. -rensfix- by Stephen Jenkins and myself
> is a deliberately created sibling (STB-59).
>
> A more general command yet capable of doing
> this, what -renpfix- does, and much more is
> -renvars- from Jeroen Weesie and myself
> (STB-60).
>
> Having said that, minimalists and despisers
> of ad hoc tools would want to mention the
> use of -foreach- here:
>
> foreach v of var *_ja {
> local new : subinstr local v "_ja" "_1"'
> rename `v' `new'
> }
>
> or
>
> foreach v of var *_ja {
> rename `v' `: subinstr local v "_ja" "_1"'
> }
>
> Similarly,
>
> foreach v of var *_fe {
> rename `v' `: subinstr local v "_ja" "_2"'
> }
>
> In other words, you can knit your own replacements
> in one move on the fly.
>
> Jeroen Weesie I think has mixed feelings about
> -renvars- given the existence of -foreach-.
> I feel somewhat the same way, but guess that there
> are users who might like -renvars- but
> who draw the line at working out their own macro
> manipulations each time they have problems like this.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Danielle Ferry
>
> > Is there a command similar to <renpfix> where instead it
> renames all
> > variables that END with old_stub to END with new_stub? If not, can
> > anyone suggest a relatively easy way of doing this for a
> > large number
> > of variables that all end with the same stub? I.e., I want
> to rename
> > everything *_ja to *_1 and everything *_fe to *_2, etc. Thanks.
>
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