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Re: st: Batch renaming variables
From
Wameq Raza <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Batch renaming variables
Date
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:48:23 +0200
Thanks Saqlain,
I'm aware of this syntax. The reason for my email was to get help
regarding the mass edit. I have 45 of such variables and would be
interested in not doing this manually.
Best
Wameq
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:44 PM, saqlain raza <[email protected]> wrote:
> try with rename v1 cost_a
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> Saqlain RAZA
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Wameq Raza <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:36 PM
> Subject: st: Batch renaming variables
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to do batch renames.
> To elaborate, suppose I have 10 variables: v1, v2....v10 and I want to
> rename every second var (ie v2, v4, v6, v8 and v10) to cost_a,
> cost_b....cost_e. Can anyone please help me figure this out? I've
> tried looking into renvars, but can't seem to figure it out.
> Thanks!
> Wameq
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