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Re: st: compare files, vars only


From   Antoine Terracol <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: compare files, vars only
Date   Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:58:52 +0100

David,

It will depend on the kind of comparisons you want to do, but

. help unab

and

. help macrolist

should make the task easier.

Antoine


David Kantor wrote:
> Hi.
> Does anyone know of a program to compare the sets of variables in two 
> data files? What I have in mind is something akin to -cf-, but...
>  it would not compare values -- only the names of variables;
>  it would not care whether the two data files had the same number of 
> observations.
> 
> I was planning to write such a program, but I wanted to be sure that it 
> hadn't already been done.
> Thanks
> --David
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