RE: st: forval query

["Mirnezami, Oliver" <O.Y.Mirnezami@warwick.ac.uk>]

Thank you to Maarten and Billy for your quick and helpful replies. I wondered is it possible to alter the syntax so that this can be done in an automated way for many variables?

I can repeat your set of commands for each variable e.g. 

forvalues i = 2/10 {
    local j = 1990 + (2*`i')
    rename r`i'mobila mobila_`j'
	ma drop j
}


forvalues i = 2/10 {
    local j = 1990 + (2*`i')
    rename r`i'lgmusa lgmusa_`j'
	ma drop j
}

Etc. 

However, I have do this for many variables so can you plug in a line with a list of these variables to avoid repeating the command over and over again?

Thank you

Kind regards

Oliver 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Maarten Buis
Sent: 05 April 2013 14:40
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: forval query

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Mirnezami, Oliver wrote:
> Previously i've been renaming variables manually en masse using the following code:
>
> rename  r2mobila mobila_1994
> rename  r3mobila mobila_1996
> rename  r4mobila mobila_1998
> .etc..
> rename  r10mobila mobila_2010
>
> i.e. '2' corresponds with '1994', '3' with '1996' etc.

forvalues i = 2/10 {
    local y = 2*`i' +1990
    rename r`i'mobila mobila_`y'
}

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