Nick
Thanks for the response, but houseinc* would include houseinc_mean and I
just want houseinc1-houseinc100.
Like I said, I don't think it is possible, but it would be nice if it were
included.
I often find myself renaming variables to get round this - ie I'd rename
houseinc_mean to mean_houseinc then use houseinc* as you suggested. I
simply thought that it would be easy to add something to they varlist
syntax to enable the expansion of just vars ending in a number. But
possibly I'm the only person who would like this.
Mathew
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:41:31 -0000
From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: st: RE: syntax - expanding vars ending in a number
houseinc* is the wildcard you want. This
is documented at [U] 11.4 and the help for varlist.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
mathew.stalker@dotecon.com
> I don't know if it is possible to refer to a set of variables
> called the
> same thing but all ending in a number, but I'd quite like it to be.
>
> For example, consider a dataset with the variables houseinc1 to
> houseinc100, houseinc_mean and id. It would be nice to be able to do
> something like:
>
> egen houseinc_total=rsum(houseinc#)
> which would sum houseinc1-houseinc100 but exclude housein_mean
>
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