Exactly, Philip. Thanks very much. It seemed like too useful an idea
for there not to be an approach.
-JW
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philipp Rehm
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: variables into a macro
ds _all
di "`r(varlist)'"
But you may want to select variables into a macro, based on the patterns
of their name (or other characteristics). Again, -ds- is very helpful
here.
Hope that helps,
Philipp
Wallace, John wrote:
> Dear Statalisters
>
> I'd like to write a routine for a do-file that loads all the variable
> names in the current dataset into a macro for further manipulation
> (selection of subsets based on patterns in their names). Maybe its
just
> late in the week, but I can't think of a way to do so. Is this a
silly
> thing to do?
>
>
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