st: Use of results in variable name

[alec minnema <alecminnema@hotmail.com>]

Dear Stata Users,

I have to use many datasets of different sizes and I will use a foreach loop to open them. 
Inside each dataset I look up the last variable in the dataset with 
describe and than I want to know the mean of that variable. So the body of the foreach loop has to look like this:



describe

scalar LastVariable = r(k)

mean(v`destring(LastVariable)')?? (all variables start with a v and then the number of the variable.)


How can I tell stata to look up the variable vX where X is the number saved in LastVariable.

Thank you in advance,



Alec Minnema
University of Groningen 		 	   		  
 		 	   		  
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