Presumably, you are transferring from a text format into Stata. Stata (and most other statistical software to the best of my knowledge) does not allow variable names to start with numbers, only with letters or underscores. Therefore, if you want Stat/Transfer to preserve your variable names when transferring to Stata, then you must make these variable names legal Stata names before the transfer.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes
Roger
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Ovaldia
Sent: 02 December 2009 14:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
Dear _all
I have a Stata program write under Stata's version 9 that uses stat-transfer's "st.exe" to read an ever increasing number of text data files.
I recently upgrated to Stat/tranfer 10, and when I ran my program it broke.
Stat/transfer rename my variables. For example it changed:
1_1_SubjectID to a_1_SubjectID
1_2_Reviewer to a_2_Reviewer
and so on.
How do I get Stat/transfer to respect my variable names? and why does it change them?
Thank you,
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
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