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RE: st: renaming variables based on long labels


From   "Cohen, Elan" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: renaming variables based on long labels
Date   Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:08:21 +0000

Thank you Daniel, -permname- worked wonderfully.  I looked through all the string functions but forgot there was extra string functionality in the extended macro functions.

- Elan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of daniel klein
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: renaming variables based on long labels
> 
> First, I do not see under which circumstances you would prefer long
> variable names, too long to ever be typed out, to names like VAR1,
> VAR2, etc. but you will probably have your reasons.
> 
> Second, abbreviations used in your examples are not unique to
> -summarize-. It is used in every command producing output (e.g.
> tabstat). A lot of those command are implemented  as ados. However,
> unfortunatly nothing in these program's code will give you a hint how
> Stata manages to come up with the abbreviations.
> 
> Third, and I hope this helps, there is an extended function called
> -permname-, which creates valid variable names based on suggested
> names. If you modify your code to read
> 
> foreach var of varlist VAR* {
> 	rename `var' `:permname `=strtoname("`: var lab `var''")''
> }
> 
> you should not have the problem of invalid or already defined names.
> 
> Best
> Daniel
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