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Re: st: Re: referring to groups of variables by suffixes
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Re: referring to groups of variables by suffixes
Date
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:01:04 +0000
Yes. See -help varlist- for so-called wildcards. They work with suffixes too,
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. ds
make rep78 weight displacement
price headroom length gear_ratio
mpg trunk turn foreign
. ds *t
weight displacement
Nick
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Michael Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working with a large dataset (approx 600 variables) with
> different names but some of them end in similar manner
>
> Eg:
> procedure__11_procedure_code___i
> procedure__11_procedure_date
> procedure__11_procedure_or_ind
> procedure__11_procedure_tissue_t
> procedure__11_procedure_type
> procedure__12_procedure_abnormal
> procedure__12_procedure_code_icd
> procedure__12_procedure_date
> procedure__12_procedure_ep_no
> procedure__12_procedure_location
> procedure__12_procedure_or_ind
> procedure__12_procedure_physicia
> procedure__12_procedure_tissue_t
> procedure__12_procedure_type
> procedure__12_procedure_type0
> procedure__13_procedure_abnormal
> procedure__13_procedure_anes_age
> procedure__13_procedure_anes_met
> procedure__13_procedure_code_icd
> procedure__13_procedure_date
>
> I want to drop variables ending with procedure_tissue_t and
> procedure_anes_age. Its tedious to do it for large number of
> variables.Can you please suggest a shortcut . Is there a shortcut to
> refer to all variables ending with procedure_tissue_t &
> procedure_anes_age.I found shortcuts to refer to variables for
> prefixes but not for suffixes so far.
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