Eric, Roger and Nick,
Thank you for the Reply. And yes you are correct.
What Stat/transfer did before was to add an underscore before the variable name. Thus it changed:
1_1_SubjectID to _1_1_SubjectID
1_2_Reviewer to _1_2_Reviewer
and so on.
How do I get this behaviour back?
Thank you,
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Eric Booth <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 8:57 AM
> >
> >
>
> You cannot start a Stata variable name with a number,
> that's why ST changes "1" to "a".
>
>
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> [email protected]
> Office: +979.845.6754
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
>
> > 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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