Not the question, but note also that the problem being solved here is that
also solved by the official Stata command -renpfix-.
Nick
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> foreach var of varlist haem_id - haem_nbc {
> local newname=substr("`var'", 6, .)
> rename `var' `newname'
> }
>
> or
>
> foreach var of varlist haem_id - haem_nbc {
> rename `var' `=substr("`var'", 6, .)'
> }
>
> for that matter.
>
> On 10/30/06, Raphael Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Didn't work. From the trace as you said -substr(`var', 6, .)- is not
> > being evaluated as I expected. Typing the following in the command
> > line works:
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