Perfect. Thank you!
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> Subject: AW: AW: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:29 AM
>
> <>
>
> Just say
>
> *************
> renpfix a _1
> *************
>
> then.
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Im Auftrag von Ricardo Ovaldia
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 16:30
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: AW: st: Problem with new version of
> Stat-transfer
>
> 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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