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| From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: SV: st: value labels, rename and merge |
| Date | Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:04:40 +0100 |
-renvars- from SJ offers various devices for renaming. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Tomas Lind The variable names and the example I gave was I bit simplified. When I tried to manipulate your syntax to fit our specific problem I got into trouble. The variable names are not just: Q1, Q2, Q3 ... . They are: id, est, dat, Q1, Q2, Q3 ... . I do not simply want to change to: w_Q1, w_Q2, w_Q3 ... . I want to get rid of "Q" in the names and change the names to: id, est, dat, q12p1, q12p2, q12p3 ... . To change your code to add q12 instead of w_ is straight forward, but to get rid of Q and get the loop running is more than I can achieve. Any help is welcome. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/