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Re: st: Re: Extract variable name in order to change it, iteratively


From   Jeppe Warberg Larsen <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: Extract variable name in order to change it, iteratively
Date   Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:52:51 +0200

Hmm ok, thank you, I shall have a look at that.
I'm afraid i made an oversimplification in stating my problem: the
variable names are not actually var1_ var2_ var3_ ... but words:
something_ somethingelse_

So my question still stands: how do I get the name of a variable and
put it in a local string for each iteration

On 8/2/05, R.E. De Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeppe,
> 
> You can try
> 
> local year 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02
> 
> foreach y in local years {
>     forval i = 1/100 {
>         if `y'>=88 {
>             ren var`i'_`y' var`i'_19`y'
>         }
>         else {
>             ren var`i'_`y' var`i'_20`y'
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> I haven't tried it, so I hope it works. 
> 
> Rafa
> ________________________
> R.E. De Hoyos
> Faculty of Economics
> University of Cambridge
> CB3 9DE, UK
> www.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd/red29/ 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeppe Warberg Larsen" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:14 PM
> Subject: st: Extract variable name in order to change it, iteratively
> 
> 
> >I have a wide data structure. Each observation consists of a unique
> > identifier (say, id) and some series of annual variables with a
> > two-digit suffix (running in different intervals). Like this:
> > 
> > id var1_88 var1_89 ... var1_02 var2_92 var2_93 ... var2_02
> > var3_...................................
> > 
> > Now I want to reshape it to long, but stata fails to read the
> > two-digit values after the turn of century (00 01 02), so I need to
> > rename all varibles to a four-digit year.
> > 
> > foreach var of varlist var1_88-var100_02{
> > //save name of variable in a local string
> > //do nessecary string manipulation (I can do that)
> > //rename var 
> > }
> > 
> > My problem seems to be:
> > 1) extracting the name of the current variable
> > 2) rename
> > 
> > Do you understand what I'm asking?
> > I'd be glad if someone can help, and please don't tell me that it
> > would be easier to do this manually, because I will need to do this
> > operation many times...
> > 
> > Jeppe W. Larsen
> > 
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