st: RE: rename with if

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Looking at the question again, the core is 

foreach var of varlist _all { 
	if "`var'" != "idnr" rename `var' `k'_`var' 
}

Picking up an idea from Fernando Rios Avila [f.rios.a@gmail.com], and adding another, this might as well be 

rename (*) (`k'_*) 
rename `k'_idnr idnr 

bearing in mind that in Stata 12 -- which you are presumed to use unless you flag otherwise -- -rename- has a bunch of new features that allow renaming of multiple variables. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Tomas Lind

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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