RE: st: rename

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

.

Nick and David kindly helped with their replies.

Thanks!



> sysuse auto
> rename (*) (<new list>)
> 
> will work.
> 
> Nick

> > Maybe you could run it through a loop where the first word of the first
> > macro gets changed to the first word of the second macro, etc.? Like
> this:
> > 
> > * Make fake dataset
> > set more off
> > clear
> > set obs 1
> > forvalues i = 1/1000 {
> > 	gen oldvar`i' = .
> > 	}
> > 
> > * Make list of new variable names
> > forvalues i = 1/1000 {
> > 	local newnames `newnames' newvar`i'
> > 	}
> > 
> > * Change all variable names
> > local j = 1
> > unab original : oldvar*
> > forvalues j = 1/1000 {
> > 	local oldname : word `j' of `original'
> > 	local newname : word `j' of `newnames'
> > 	rename `oldname' `newname'
> > 	}


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