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Re: st: last variable in the dataset
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: last variable in the dataset
Date
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:49:34 -0500
On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
> I am writing an -ado- program that merges several datasets with different variables. I need to know the name of the last variable after the merge. Is there a way to get the name of the last variable or refer to the last variable in the dataset?
Either
mata: st_local("lastvar", st_varname(st_numscalar("c(k)")))
or
qui ds
loc lastvar: word `c(k)' of `r(varlist)'
will place the name of the last variable in the current dataset into the local macro lastvar.
-- Phil
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