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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
Date
Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:31:38 +1100
You could try Jeroen Weesie's -mmerge- from SSC. The uname() option does what you want; from the -mmerge- help file:
uname(stub) specifies a stub prefixed to the names of the variables imported from the using data, truncated at 32 characters.
Phil
On 11/11/2012, at 2:31 AM, Stephen Cranney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm merging about thirty different datasets together to form one big
> longitudinal one, and many of them have the same variables but
> different values that change over time (household income, for
> example). I could go through and rename all the relevant variables by
> hand, but is there a quick and easy way to automatically preface every
> variable from dataset X with a certain letter or number during the
> process of or after merging?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stephen
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