Thomas Speidel wrote:
I am trying to order the variables of a dataset in a chronological
fashion (the month+year is stored in the the varname - the content of
the variables is _not_ a date). I have to allow for the possibility of
additional variables reflecting future/past dates, hence the lengthy
order command. I am not sure why this is happening, since I thought the
capture option should take care of it, but the following code does not
produce what I had expected:
set obs 10
gen Sector=1
gen Feb2007=2
gen Dec2006=6
gen Oct2006=4
gen Nov2006=84
gen Sep2006=897
gen Jan2007=4.3
....
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Austin Nichols had a suggestion; here is another:
Use sortable variable names and use -aorder- to sort them:
gen v2007_02=2
gen v2006_12=6
gen v2006_10=4
gen v2006_11=84
gen v2006_09=897
gen v2007_01=4.3
aorder
Hope this helps
Svend
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