st: problem with describe and r(varlist)

[Daniel Becker <daniel.becker@uni-rostock.de>]

Dear list,

I am trying to loop over all names of variables in the memory. to  
prepare for that, I want to prepare a local that lists all my  
variables. I thought that r(varlist) stores them, but, as you see  
below, the "descibe, simple" commmand gives me all my variables, it  
stores only a subset in r(varlist).

Does anyone know why that happens?

Thanks for any hint,

daniel



#### from my do-file

describe, simple;
display r(varlist);
local AlleVariablen = r(varlist);
display "Im local AlleVariablen steht: " "`AlleVariablen'";

foreach x of local AlleVariablen {;
codebook `x',compact;
tabulate `x';
};


#### stata-output from the log
> describe, simple;
res_id       B6           B15          B24          C5_1          
E4_sonst     F5_konkret
start        B7           B16          B25          C5_2          
E5           F6
ende         B8           B16_andere   B26          C5_3          
E6           F6_konkret
A1           B9_1         B17          C1           D1            
E7           F7
A2           B9_2         B17_sonst    C2           D1_andere     
E8           F7_konkret
A2_sonst     B10          B18          C3_1         D2            
E9           G1
A3           B10_konkret  B18_sonst    C3_2         D3            
E10          G2
A4           B11          B19          C3_3         D4            
E10_andere   G3
B1           B11_sonst    B20          C3_4         E1            
E11          A1_erstf
B2           B12          B20_konkret  C4_1         E1_sonst      
F1           A1_zweitf
B3           B12_sonst    B21          C4_2         E2           F2
B4           B13          B21_sonst    C4_3         E2_konkret   F3
B5           B13_mehr     B22          C4_4         E3           F4
B5_sonst     B14          B23          C4_5         E4           F5

display r(varlist);
res_id start ende A1 A2 A2_sonst A3 A4 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B5_sonst B6 B7  
B8 B9_1 B9_2 B10 B10_konkret B11 B11_son
> st B12 B12_sonst B13 B13_mehr B14 B15 B16 B16_andere B17 B17_sonst  
B18 B18_sonst B19 B20 B20_konkret B21 B2
> 1_sonst B22 B23 B24 B25 B26

#### the variables C1 ... D1 ... etc are missing in r(varlist)


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