Works fine for me.
The implication of the error is that you must have had a space after
_Iquarter_ and before `qtr'.
Here's my test code:
.. clear
.. set obs 3
obs was 0, now 3
.. gen _Idate_130 = 0
.. rename _Idate_130 _Iquarter_92_2
.. local qtr: display %tqY!_q 130
.. di "`qtr'"
92_3
.. gen _Idate_131 = 0
.. rename _Idate_131 _Iquarter_`qtr'
.. desc
Contains data
obs: 3
vars: 2
size: 36 (99.9% of memory free)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_Iquarter_92_2 float %9.0g
_Iquarter_92_3 float %9.0g
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by:
..
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Thomas J. Steichen
[email protected]
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Davide Cantoni
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Renaming year-quarter indicators with a local
I'm trying to rename indicator variables for a time period that have
been created with xi. What I cannot understand is why
.. rename _Idate_130 _Iquarter_92_3
works perfectly, whereas the following code does not
.. local qtr: display %tqY!_q 130
.. rename _Idate_130 _Iquarter_`qtr'
92_3 not allowed
Thanks for your suggestions,
Davide Cantoni
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