Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:
> some of my data?s variables have an leading underscore but not all, i.e.:
>
> _var1 _var2 _var3 var4 var5 _var 6
>
> How can I remove the leading underscore to get
>
> var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
forach var of varlist _all {
rename `var' `=subinstr("`var'","_","",.)'
}
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