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SV: st: rename with if
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Tomas Lind <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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SV: st: rename with if
Date
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:22:50 +0000
YEAS, this solves it! THANKS.
However I now get another error message "already preserved".
/Tomas
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Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Nick Cox
Skickat: den 21 oktober 2011 17:12
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Ämne: RE: st: rename with if
It should have been
if "`var'" != "idnr" rename `var' `k'_`var'
Nick
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Tomas Lind
Using this syntax for the rename:
if `var' != "idnr" rename `var' `k'_`var'
gives me another error: type mismatch
Austin Nichols
Tomas Lind <[email protected]>:
One way:
if `var' != "idnr" rename `var' `k'_`var'
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Tomas Lind <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to rename all my variables (in lots of datasets) except the first variable which is idnr. The problem with the syntax below is that "if is not allowed".
>
> Someone have a solution to this?
>
> /Tomas
>
>
>
> levelsof atc , local(cat)
> foreach k of local cat {
> preserve
> use "G:\ATC-dataset_`k'" , clear
> foreach var of varlist _all {
> rename `var' `k'_`var' if `var' != "idnr"
> }
> save "G: \ATC-dataset_`k'" , replace
> restore
> }
>
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