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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
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Stephen Cranney <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
Date
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:07:03 -0500
The mmerge command worked perfectly for my purposes. Thanks!
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Phil Clayton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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