st: RE: SV: RE: rename with if

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

Indeed, that does work. I was just suggesting an alternative. 

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

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Tomas Lind
Sent: 21 October 2011 16:31
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: SV: RE: rename with if

For the moment it works when using K C Wongs suggestion but modified with "`var'" as you suggested.

if "`var'" != "idnr" {
rename  `var'    `k'_`var'

/Tomas


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Ämne: st: RE: rename with if

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. 


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