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Re: st: Renaming File Names

From	n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
To	statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject	Re: st: Renaming File Names
Date	Tue, 06 May 2008 20:15:44 +0100

Yes. Do your name manipulation using the usual string functions, macros, whatever, then call up your operating system using !.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Raphael Fraser

Is it possible to rename the file names below using the first four
characters in the file name in Stata?

018b_crp_13april08.0101.csv
020b_crp_26apr08.0101.csv
027b_crp_05april08.0101.csv
032bb_crp_06april08.0101.csv

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