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st: loop to insert underscore before year suffix
From
Lindsay Pettingill <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: loop to insert underscore before year suffix
Date
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:16:36 +0200
Hello,
I am working with a massive panel dataset in wide form that I would
like to convert to long. The reshape command requires stubs, and I
have a ton of variables, differentiated by a variable name, followed
by the year. I'd like to generate a list of stubs, and have found some
programs here to do so, but my stubs are not separated from year with
an underscore. Instead, I just have text, followed by a number.
Example:
yearmovedinto2005 yearmovedinto2006 satisdwelling1995 satisdwelling1994
Is there a loop I can run to insert an underscore before the year, so
that I can then generate the stub names and reshape? I imagine there
is an easy way, using a wildcard, but my programming skills are close
to null.
Thanks!
Lindsay Pettingill
Georgetown University
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