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Re: st: Recoding all variables in a dataset
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Recoding all variables in a dataset
Date
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:28:53 +0000
See also -ds- or -findname- (SJ/SSC) for ways of separating numeric
and string variables.
Nick
On 23 Nov 2012, at 17:34, Ryan Kessler <[email protected]>
wrote:
sysuse auto, clear
foreach x of varlist * {
if substr("`: type `x''",1,3) != "str" {
recode `x' (23 = 88888)
}
}
// This is easier when we don't have any string variables in the
dataset
drop make
recode * (24 = 99999)
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Stephen Cranney
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Pardon the simple question, but I haven't been able to find an
answer.
Is there a quick and parsimonious way to refer to all the variables
in
a dataset for purposes of recoding?
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