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st: RE: RE: Keeping Stata from unabbreviating variables


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Keeping Stata from unabbreviating variables
Date   Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:08:44 -0000

Correction 

. whelp set varabbrev 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 17 January 2005 20:46
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Keeping Stata from unabbreviating variables
> 
> 
> . set varabbrev off 
> 
> added 5 October 2004 
> 
> . whelp var abbrev 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Andrew Felton
>  
> > Is there a way to keep Stata from automatically
> > un-abbreviating variable names?  I had a situation
> > recently where I had a lot of variables with similar
> > names.  Some of them had a secondary variable with "p"
> > after the name, and sometimes there was just the "p"
> > variable -- so I had, e.g., q1, q2, q2p, q3p, q4, etc.
> > 
> > I wanted to do something like label val q3 q3label --
> > and have this fail if there was no q3 in the set, not
> > to automatically apply the command to q3p as it would
> > as stands.  I ended up using a roundabout method using
> > "ds" and looking word-by-word for a match within
> > r(varlist) -- but I am curious if there is a better
> > way.
> > 
> > Is there a setting for this?
> > 
> 
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