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AW: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   AW: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
Date   Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:16:41 +0100

<> 

" How do I get this behaviour back?"

Just change the prefix within Stata, then:

*************
clear
set obs 1
gen a_1_family=.
gen a_2_family=.
//get rid of prefix "a"
renpfix a
d
*************



HTH
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Ricardo Ovaldia
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 16:15
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer

Eric, Roger and Nick,

Thank you for the Reply. And yes you are correct.

What Stat/transfer did before was to add an underscore before the variable
name. Thus it changed:

 1_1_SubjectID  to  _1_1_SubjectID
 1_2_Reviewer  to  _1_2_Reviewer
 and so on.

How do I get this behaviour back?

Thank you,
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK


--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Eric Booth <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Problem with new version of Stat-transfer
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 8:57 AM
> >
> >
> 
> You cannot start a Stata variable name with a number,
> that's why ST changes "1" to "a".
> 
> 
> __
> 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
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > How do I get Stat/transfer to respect my variable
> names? and why does it change them?
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> > Statistician 
> > Oklahoma City, OK
> > 
> > 
> 
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