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st: AW: Remove numbers from variable name
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: AW: Remove numbers from variable name
Date
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:53:32 +0200
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"are you" is not a valid name. To make names valid you can always use
-strtoname-, though.
For your substitution, look at -subinstr()-. Why not put the question in the
-var label- or a -note- to the variable?
HTH
Martin
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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Rasika Raghavan
Gesendet: Montag, 28. Juni 2010 15:34
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Betreff: st: Remove numbers from variable name
All,
I am working on survey data, and my variable names are like
"question5doyouhave.." , "question6areyou..." and so on. I have around
50 such similarly named variables..
I need to know whether there is a way i can specify that the number be
removed from the variable name, and maybe if possible the "question"
bit also.
i.e a sort of
rename question5doyouhave doyouhave
rename question6areyou are you
Is there any way to do this without specifying each variables old and new
name?
Rasika
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