I think this needs a little more explanation.
In your example, the difference between "text"
and "test" looks like a typo. If so,
gen varnew = "test" + varold
would be enough, but I doubt that's what you
mean.
Nick
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Hans J. Baumgartner
> 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.
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