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Re: st: Re: Delete upper case variable
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: Delete upper case variable
Date
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:41:20 -0500
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I don't think -findname- has the ability to select on variable case (that I could find anyways ((I thought I remembered Nick Cox commenting about this in an earlier thread, but I couldnt find it - or I'm imagining it))) ).
Here's a one way to do it:
*************!
sysuse auto, clear
rename mpg headroom, upper
**
foreach a in `c(ALPHA)' {
cap ds `a'*
loc list `"`list' `r(varlist)' "'
}
di `"`list'"' //check this
drop `list'
*************!
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
+979.845.6754
On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Janet Hill wrote:
> I am importing a large dataset and, following various data manipulations, I generate new variables that have lower case names. To clean the dataset I need to delete all variables that start with an upper case letter. I can see the names in ds or findname (from SSC) but I can't work out how to select these names for deletion. I would be grateful for any advice on this. I am using Stata 12.
>
> Thank you,
> Janet
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