Starting from where you are now,
foreach v of var iso_* {
local newname "`: var label `v''"
local newname : subinstr local newname "iso==" ""
rename `v' `newname'
}
Starting from your original -iso_str-:
levelsof iso_str, local(levels)
foreach l of local levels {
gen byte `l' = iso_str == "`l'"
}
However, this example really hinges on the fact that
your string values happen all to be legal variable names.
Nick
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David Airey
> I have a variable naming question, after encoding.
>
> I used these commands,
>
> encode iso_str, generate(iso)
> tab iso, gen(iso_)
>
> "iso_str" was a variable with these levels:
>
> . levels iso_str
> `"IDI"' `"IDV"' `"IGI"' `"IGV"' `"INI"' `"INV"' `"ISI"' `"ISV"'
> `"MDV"' `"MNI"'
> > `"MNV"' `"MSI"' `"MSV"' `"VDI"' `"VDV"' `"VGI"' `"VGV"' `"VNI"'
> `"VNV"' `"VSI"
> > ' `"VSV"'
>
> and so iso has these levels
>
> . levels iso
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
>
> after tab iso, gen(iso_)
>
> I wind up with 1,0 indicator variables for each level of iso, with
> useful variable labels. But really I'd like to have indicator
> variables named for each level, like "IDI" instead of
> "iso_1". How do
> I do that?
>
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -------
> iso_str str3 %9s
> iso long %8.0g iso
> iso_1 byte %8.0g iso==IDI
> iso_2 byte %8.0g iso==IDV
> iso_3 byte %8.0g iso==IGI
> iso_4 byte %8.0g iso==IGV
> iso_5 byte %8.0g iso==INI
> iso_6 byte %8.0g iso==INV
> iso_7 byte %8.0g iso==ISI
> iso_8 byte %8.0g iso==ISV
> iso_9 byte %8.0g iso==MDV
> iso_10 byte %8.0g iso==MNI
> iso_11 byte %8.0g iso==MNV
> iso_12 byte %8.0g iso==MSI
> iso_13 byte %8.0g iso==MSV
> iso_14 byte %8.0g iso==VDI
> iso_15 byte %8.0g iso==VDV
> iso_16 byte %8.0g iso==VGI
> iso_17 byte %8.0g iso==VGV
> iso_18 byte %8.0g iso==VNI
> iso_19 byte %8.0g iso==VNV
> iso_20 byte %8.0g iso==VSI
> iso_21 byte %8.0g iso==VSV
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