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You cannot start a Stata variable name with a number, that's why ST changes "1" to "a".
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
> Dear _all
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> I have a Stata program write under Stata's version 9 that uses stat-transfer's "st.exe" to read an ever increasing number of text data files.
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> I recently upgrated to Stat/tranfer 10, and when I ran my program it broke.
> Stat/transfer rename my variables. For example it changed:
> 1_1_SubjectID to a_1_SubjectID
> 1_2_Reviewer to a_2_Reviewer
> and so on.
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> How do I get Stat/transfer to respect my variable names? and why does it change them?
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> Thank you,
> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> Statistician
> Oklahoma City, OK
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