Just type
renpfix a_
This should remove prefix "a_" from all variables. (at least in Stata 8)
ben
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> Dear STATA-Listers,
>
> I have a data set which uses different variable prefixes for different
> waves of the panel. So the variable name of the first wave is:
> a_varname
>
> To work with all the waves using the same commands I would like to
> remove the different prefixes (a_ for the first wave, b_ for the
> second and so on). To this end I used the "renpfix" command. However I
> could not figure out how I could replace the prefix for "nothing",
> i.e. I want to change
>
> a_varname ===> varname
>
> How can that be done?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Kriechel
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