--- [email protected] wrote:
> I have a dataset with 220 variables. I would like to rename the last 200
> variables with a numerical ordered name. That is, from var21 to var200
> I would like to rename them from _1 to _200.
forvalues i = 21/221 {
rename var`i' _`i'
}
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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