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st: RE: SV: RE: rename with if
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: RE: SV: RE: rename with if
Date
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:07:18 +0100
Indeed, that does work. I was just suggesting an alternative.
Nick
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tomas Lind
Sent: 21 October 2011 16:31
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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 [[email protected]], 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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