Re: st: Resolving variable name conflicts when renaming

["James Beard" <james@beard.net>]

Daniel.

Thank you so much. Just what I need!

James.

On 2 Aug 2013 at 9:32, daniel klein wrote:

Your feeling is correct, though it is not an option (or better: an
optional argument) in -strtoname()- but the extended function (-help
extended_fcn-) -permname- creates unique names for variables to be
added.

Here is a simple example

. sysuse auto ,clear
. d mpg
. loc newname : permname mpg
. di "`newname'"

Best
Daniel

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Dear Statalisters,

[...]
But, I don't have control
over what the original column names might be, and it's possible, even
likely, that the last words will be duplicated across columns. I've
written some very mickey mouse code to deal with this by adding 0 to
9 in turn to the names (after reducing the name length to 31
characters if necessary), and checking to see if those names already
exist. [...] I sort-of feel there "ought" to be
an option in -strtoname()- to do this automatically!
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