Re: st: RE: foreach to renumber vars

["B. Timothy Walsh" <btw1@columbia.edu>]

Terrific. I much appreciate the prompt assistance!

--On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:43 PM +0100 Nick Cox 
<n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> -forval- is better:
>
> 	forval i = 2/100 {
> 		local j = `i' - 2
> 		rename x`i' y`j'
> 	}
>
> Or
>
> 	forval i = 2/100 {
> 		rename x`i' y`=`i'-2'
> 	}
>
> A -foreach- solution could be
>
> 	foreach i of numlist 2/100 {
> 		<same innards>
> 	}
>
> But it has no advantages over -forval-.
>
> See also -renvars- from the SJ.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> B. Timothy Walsh
>
> I would like to rename/renumber variables of the format x2 - x100 to y0 -
> y98. In other words, I'd like to subtract 2 from the "subscript".
> I'm afraid I am still not skilled enough to figure out how to do this
> with  foreach and a macro.
>
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