Re: st: Looping through a range of variables

[Philipp Rehm <Philipp.Rehm@gmx.de>]

You can ask -foreach- to accept a varlist.

Example:
sysuse auto, clear
foreach var of varlist price-turn {
  rename `var' _`var'
}

Note that this relies on the order of the variables in your data-set. 
The following example shows this:

sysuse auto, clear
aorder
foreach var of varlist price-turn {
  rename `var' _`var'
}

HTH,
Philipp



Rachel wrote:

> I'd like to loop through a large number of variables that don't have
> common prefixes or suffixes.   So I'd like to create a loop that goes
> through all variables in a range (e.g. Var1-New7 where the variables
> are Var1 Var2 New3 New7.).
>
> "Foreach" requires a list, not a range, so that doesn't work.  And
> ForValues obviously only accepts numbers.
>
> Is there a way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rachel
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