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Re: st: deleting variables based on a certain condition
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: deleting variables based on a certain condition
Date
Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:54:32 +0100
-findname- was recently updated in SJ 12(1) 2012 and on SSC. That was
announced on this list in
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-03/msg00597.html
and should be evident from -search findname- in an up-to-date Stata
12. You need to look at the archives and also to update your copy of
-findname-.
Here is a way to do it with -findname-. No "addition" is needed.
sysuse auto, clear
gen FOO = 42
findname, all(regexm("@", "[A-Z]+")) local(SHOUTED)
FOO
drop `SHOUTED'
The local macro -SHOUTED- consists of names that you want.
That's a bit of an awkward way to do it, but still a way to do it.
Nick
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist and Nick
>
> I have certain variables the names of which are in capitals. I would
> like to delete them altogether.
>
> Basically I am looking for a something in addition to what SSC's
> findname by Nick Cox does. Perhaps Nick has a newer version or somehow
> this one can suffice?
>
> . which findname
> c:\ado\plus\f\findname.ado
> *! 1.0.1 NJC 28 April 2010
> *! 1.0.0 NJC 30 March 2010
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