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Re: st: reshaping long when the numeric part is in the middle of the string
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: reshaping long when the numeric part is in the middle of the string
Date
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:16:48 +0100
The @ syntax is what you need. Study the manual entry for -reshape-.
Nick
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Diogo L Pinheiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to reshape long a series of variables, but I am running into problems
> because the numeric part that would identify them is in the middle of the
> variable name. In this case, the variables look something like
> "variable1_other, variable2_other, variable3_other" and so on. Is there a
> similar command to reshape long that would do it by identifying those
> numbers, so that I wouldn't have to rename the hundreds of variables I have?
>
>
>
> And if I don't have an alternative but to rename them, is there a more
> efficient way of doing that in one batch than commands like "for var
> varlist"?
>
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