Thank you Ulrich for the answer.
Your suggestions work fine but I have no idea where this local comes from
and WHY&HOW it is working.
`=subinstr("`var'","_","",.)'
[email protected] schrieb am 29/03/2006 13:24:29:
> 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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