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| From | "Md. Alauddin Majumder" <mm4v@mtmail.mtsu.edu> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Error message while renaming |
| Date | Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:57:45 +0000 |
Dear Statalist, I want to use the following command to rename a variable: rename E7011702 MAR_STATUS_1997.02. It returns the following error message. too many wildcards in newname You requested E7011702 be renamed MAR_STATUS_1997.02. There are more wildcards in new than in old. Wildcards in old and new correspond one-to-one from left-to-right unless you specify explicit subscripts in new. Anyway, rename ran out of wildcards in old when matching the wildcards in new. Perhaps you just made a mistake or perhaps you forgot an explicit subscript in new. Or perhaps you forgot to specify option addnumber, which allows you to specify an extra #, (#), (##), ... r(198); Is there any way out? Pls note that I prefer to keep the name exactly MAR_STATUS_1997.02. Thanks in advance. Regards Majumder * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/