Re: st: generating new variables: any shortcut?

["Sebastian F. B�chte" <sfbuechte@gmail.com>]

You could try -foreach-:

foreach elem of varlist var1-var15 {
     gen log_`elem' = log(`elem')
}

hth
Sebastian

On 7/10/07, Vladimir V. Dashkeyev <dashkeyev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to create new variables by taking logarithms of old variables
> and I want to keep old names:
>
> -- gen log_var1 = log(var1) --
>
> If I need to take logs of all the variables in the dataset or at least
> of the variables that are named consequently (e.g. var1,
> var2...var15), is there a way to generate new variables by a single
> command?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vladimir.
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