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Re: st: Changing variable names


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Changing variable names
Date   Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:55:58 +0100 (BST)

--- Andri Rauch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I should increase the numbering in my variable names by a certain
> value (eg 55)
> Eg: r1, r2, r3, r4, r5... should read r56, r57, r58, r59, r60...

forvalues i = 1/10 {
    local j = `i' + 55 
    rename r`i' r`j'
}

-- Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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