st: Re: Changing Prefix of Variable Name

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

Search Stata help:

search rensfix, all

It's a user-written command that is very useful for changing prefixes 
and suffixes.



Elisabeth Müller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anybody know how to change the prefix of an observation (not variable)? E.g. if I want to change the observation "alpha" into "1lpha"?
>
> Thanks
>   

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