program recodevariables
version 9
syntax varlist
tokenize `varlist'
/// variables are `1' `2' `3' etc.
Nick
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Dupont, William
> I need to write a program that does the same manipulation on a large
> number of variables. I have written a program that does what I want
> that works as follows
>
> program recodevariables
> ...manipulate each variable in the argument list
> end
> use data.dta
> recodevariables tcat tdog tcow
> ...
>
> The preceding program manipulates the variables tcat, tdog and tcow in
> the way I want.
>
> Is it possible to rewrite the program so that I can execute it as
>
> recodevariables t*
>
> ? Inside recodevariables, Stata interprets t* as a single
> argument. Is
> there a way that I can expand this argument so that argument
> `1' is tcat
> argument `2' is tdog and
> argument `3' is tcow?
>
> If so, I know how to write the rest of the program. If not, is there
> some other way of writing this program using the wildcard variable
> naming convention that I should know about?
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