st: replace

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Dear statalist


I would like to replace some values but the old values should be some 
part of the new values

That is

VARold
1
2
3

should become

VARnew
text1
test2
test3


The trick is to be flexible, since I would like to use the command in a 
loop and hence the values of VARold may not be constant over all loops.

All suggestions are welcomed

Thanks
Hans

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Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Dept. Public Economics
K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany
Tel.: +49/30/89789-307
Fax.: +49/30/89789-114
http://www.diw.de
http://www.hansbaumgartner.de


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