st: Re: extract variable name

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

It is not necessary to go through that much work to deal with the two- 
digit year. Here is a snippet that I wrote yesterday to deal with  
that problem in a data set which has yr_0, ... yr_4 as date strings  
in two-digit year format:

forv i=0/4 {
    g meet_yr`i' = date(yr_`i',"dm20y")
    replace meet_yr`i' = meet_yr`i' - 36525 if meet_yr`i' > 32783
    format meet_yr`i' %td
    drop yr_`i'
}

The constant 36525 is the number of days in the interval (xx xxx 19xx  
- xx xxx 20xx).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Aug 3, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Jeppe wrote:


> Now I want to reshape it to long, but stata fails to read the
> two-digit values after the turn of century (00 01 02), so I need to
> rename all varibles to a four-digit year.
>
> foreach var of varlist var1_88-var100_02{
>     //save name of variable in a local string
>     //do nessecary string manipulation (I can do that)
>     //rename var
> }
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