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Re: st: last variable in the dataset
From
Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: last variable in the dataset
Date
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you to everyone that reply to my question.
The code:
des
loc lastvar: word `c(k)' of `r(varlist)'
did what I needed
Ricardo
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Sat, 8/13/11, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: last variable in the dataset
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 10:49 AM
> On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Ricardo
> Ovaldia wrote:
> > I am writing an -ado- program that merges several
> datasets with different variables. I need to know the name
> of the last variable after the merge. Is there a way
> to get the name of the last variable or refer to the last
> variable in the dataset?
>
>
> Either
>
> mata: st_local("lastvar",
> st_varname(st_numscalar("c(k)")))
>
> or
>
> qui ds
> loc lastvar: word `c(k)' of `r(varlist)'
>
> will place the name of the last variable in the current
> dataset into the local macro lastvar.
>
>
> -- Phil
>
>
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