Re: st: findvar command?

[David Jacobs <jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu>]

As you probably already know, there's a command called "look for" that 
matches strings in variable names and in variable labels.  Then "describe 
[var name], number" tells you where the variable is in the file.

Note that this sequence is more than a bit clunky.  When I used to use SPSS 
long ago, there was a "find variable" command of some kind that put 
everything in alphabetic order in a list and then if you selected a 
variable, it would take you to that point in the data spread sheet.  I wish 
Stata had something like that.

Dave Jacobs

At 10:19 AM 11/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> I attended the Stata conference in Boston earlier this year
> and I swear I heard someone mention that there was a command called
> -findvar- that made finding variables in a dataset with many, many
> variables easy.  I found the -dsearch- command which does 90% of
> what I want.  I performed a -findit- search and didn't come up
> with anything on -findvar-.
>
> Any information regarding this would be helpful.
>
> thanks,
>
> dan
>
> dan_blanchette@unc.edu
> carolina population center, unc-ch
>
>
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/