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st: looping to rename variable names
From
Kate Xu <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: looping to rename variable names
Date
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 02:41:35 +0100
Hi All,
I would like to program a loop in STATA to change the name a long list
of variables ending with "_" and a letter, like these:
ab1535_a
ab32343_b
ab089790_g
ab3434_t
...........
I want to change them into
ab1535
ab32343
ab089790
ab3434
...........
I can use
ds ab*_*
local oldname `r(varlist)'
for each foreach i of local oldname {
rename `i' ????
}
I don't know how to complete this loop, Is there a way to program this please?
Thanks a lot!
Kate
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