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st: Renaming variables using foreach
From
Suryadipta Roy <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
st: Renaming variables using foreach
Date
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:20:44 -0400
Dear Statalisters,
I am currently learning looping in Stata and is stuck with the
following problem: I have about 150 variables that I want to rename as
var1 var2, etc.. upto var 150. I tried the following:
local i = `i' + 1
foreach x of varlist Agricultural_raw_materials_expor -
Value_lost_due_to_electrical_out {
2. rename `x' var`i'
3. }
I am getting the following error message:
var1 already defined
r(110);
I find that only the first variable is renamed as "var1" and then the
loop stopped running. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Suryadipta.
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