Thank you Martin, but that is not exactly correct.
Dropping the prefix will change:
a_2_Reviewer to _2_Reviewer
what I need is _1_2_Reviewer
i.e. the "a"back to "1" and "_" in front.
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> Subject: AW: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:16 AM
>
> <>
>
> " How do I get this behaviour back?"
>
> Just change the prefix within Stata, then:
>
> *************
> clear
> set obs 1
> gen a_1_family=.
> gen a_2_family=.
> //get rid of prefix "a"
> renpfix a
> d
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Im Auftrag von Ricardo Ovaldia
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 16:15
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
>
> 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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