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st: RE: Rename variables


From   "Maarten Buis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Rename variables
Date   Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:28:30 +0100

--- [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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