RE: st: variables copy

["b. water" <barleywater@hotmail.com>]

dear yang li,

my suggestion might be frown upon by others but could get the job done till 
such time you become comfortable with stata.

put your original data in excel (if it's in stata .dta, copy paste to excel 
from the editor), highlights those unwanted columns, cut and paste them to 
another sheet (in case you need them in the future) then copy and paste the 
columns that you want into stata.

another approach, which i would encourage you if you think you would be 
stataing for a while is to invest time in understanding joseph's do-file. it 
can be re-applied ad-infinitum with minor jiggling to another similar 
problems.

best wishes,
bw

ps: assuming you have excel that is



> From: Yang Li <Yang.Li-4@uts.edu.au>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: variables copy
> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:44:11 +1000
>
> Dear Statalists,
>
> I have a huge list of variables in the form of
> var1 par1 var2 par2 ... varN parN
> I am intend to only copy var1, var 2.. var N to another stata file.
> How can I realize this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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