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Re: st: Rename question


From   "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Rename question
Date   Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:00:16 +0100 (BST)

Samani Lamabadusuriya wrote:

> I am new to Stata and would really appreciate your help with the rename
> function.  I'd like to rename range of variables jan02 - jul04 to mjan02 -
> jul04, is there a quicker way to do this than using rename a million
> times?

In addition to David's ingenious code, check out Jeroen Weesie's -renvars-
package:

. ssc desc renvars

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