Re: st: Spanish characters in variable names?

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 19 I�il 2006, at 17:10, Anderson, Bradley J wrote:

> Is there any way of entering this name directly into either the  
> command
> window or a .do file directly?  My work around is basically to copy  
> and
> paste for each special character.  The problem is there are lots of
> variables with special characters and I'm trying to automate the  
> process.

I often get data files with unhelpful names. I usually grab the  
variable names and put them into a spreadsheet as the second column.  
I put my own variable name in the third column, and in the first I  
put the word 'rename'.

Copied as plain text, this makes a do-file, but it also leaves behind  
a lookup table that tells me what each variable was originally called.

I have, of course, no wish to allege that spanish is unhelful! �Dios  
mio - se va armar un lio espantoso!

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