Clive's suggestion is a good one, but renvars is not on ssc,
-findit renvars- will bring up
STB-60 dm88 . . . . . . . . Renaming variables, multiply and
systematically
(help renvars if installed) . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and J.
Weesie
3/01 pp.4--6; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.41--44
renames variables by changing prefixes, postfixes, substrings,
or as specified by a user supplied rule
It is in the dm88 package at http://www.stata.com/stb/stb60/ so you should
be able to
net install http://www.stata.com/stb/stb60/dm88
Buzz Burhans
> 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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