Reza,
names have to begin with a letter or an underscore.
So, how about:
foreach var of varlist * {
rename `var' _95_`var'
}
or
foreach var of varlist * {
rename `var' `var'_95
}
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: st: Two digit prefix to variables
> Thanks Scott,
>
> I tried your code and it worked perfectly. However, when I tried
> to use a
> numerical prefix, it gave me the following error message:
>
> foreach var of varlist * {
> 2. rename `var' 95_`var'
> 3. }
> 95_district invalid name
> r(198);
>
> Any idea why this is happening? I'm sure its simple & I'm just too
> unfamiliarwith the code. I'll read up more on "foreach".
>
> Thanks,
> Reza
>
>
>
>
> Quoting [email protected]:
>
> > foreach var of varlist * {
> > rename `var' foo_`var'
> > }
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 1:59 pm
> > Subject: Re: st: Two digit prefix to variables
> >
> > > Regarding my earlier message:
> > >
> > > I wanted to add that I am not looking to type "rename var 95var"
> > > for every
> > > variable. I would like to write and use a program to effect the
> > > change.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Reza
> > >
> > > Quoting [email protected]:
> > >
> > > > Dear Statalisters,
> > > >
> > > > Could you please help me work out how to attach a two digit
> > > numerical prefix
> > > > to
> > > > all my variables? I am preparing to append surveys from
> > > different dates but
> > > > that have the same variable names, and I would like to
> > > distinguish between
> > > > them
> > > > by adding a two digit year prefix (e.g. hhid becomes 95hhid).
> > > This will be
> > > > done
> > > > before appending the datasets, so that when I do append I can
> > > distinguish> between the variables.
> > > >
> > > > I have not yet taken the Stata programming course (hope to
> > > soon), so I'm
> > > > unsure
> > > > where to start.
> > >
> >
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> > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
> >
>
>
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