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Re: st: Renaming variables, bis
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Renaming variables, bis
Date
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:42:55 +0100
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, BAIJER Jan 212040 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It so appears (...) that the intended variable names (first observation of each variable) have spaces inthem, so I would probably be looking to try to eliminate those by "subinstr", but I can't get that to work.
>
> I have tried several variants of :
>
> foreach var of varlist _all {
>
> local NewVarName = subinstr ("`var'[1]'"," ","_")
>
> ren `var' `NewVarName'
>
> }
>
Further you've made a fundamental error in understanding how Stata
handles spaces in variable names.
Spaces in variable names are not permitted in Stata, they're
automatically purged and the remaining text concatenated when using
-insheet-. However, if you're using the suggested -infix- and
dictionary this won't be an issue as you will explicitly define the
variable names within your dictionary.
Neil
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