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Re: st: Drop variables based on variable label
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Debs Majumdar <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Drop variables based on variable label
Date
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:29:49 -0800 (PST)
I see what are you trying to do but it's not dropping the variables.
Thanks,
-Joey
----- Original Message -----
From: A Loumiotis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: st: Drop variables based on variable label
Hi Joey,
You could try this:
ds
foreach var in `r(varlist)' {
if substr("`:var l `var''",1,2)=="rs" drop `var'
}
Best,
Antonis
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Shubhabrata Mukherjee
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to drop variables based on variable label?
>
> I have some variables (which are redundant) whose variable label start with 'rs'.
>
> E.g.
>
> var label
>
> v1 rs12
>
> v2 s13
>
> v3 rs14
> v4 rs17
> v5 s15
> ...........
> .......
> ....
>
> I want to drop the variables whose label starts with rs (v1, v3, v4,...).
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joey
>
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