Having said this, I don't see the relevance to
a -reshape- problem. For -reshape- you need
stubs, not a varlist that includes stubs plus suffixes.
Thus removing varnames that have certain suffixes
won't affect a stub list. You possibly need to
-rename- the *3 first.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> ds *3, not
>
> If no variables match the pattern, this will return an
> error; otherwise -not- specifies return of the complement
> in `r(varlist)'.
>
> -ds- is currently undocumented (meaning, there is no
> manual entry), but the help and the .ado are there
> for you to use.
>
> If -ds- didn't exist, this would be a three-step
>
> unab not : *3
> unab all : _all
> local all : list all - not
>
> and in general that should be more efficient, not
> that you would normally notice. See
> help for -macrolists- and -unab-.
Rachel
> > Can Stata generate a varlist that excludes all variables ending in,
> > say, the number three? I need a varlist like this for a reshape.
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