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SV: st: rename with if


From   Tomas Lind <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   SV: st: rename with if
Date   Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:22:50 +0000

YEAS, this solves it! THANKS.

 However I now get another error message  "already preserved".

/Tomas



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Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Nick Cox
Skickat: den 21 oktober 2011 17:12
Till: '[email protected]'
Ämne: RE: st: rename with if

It should have been 

if "`var'" != "idnr" rename `var' `k'_`var' 


Nick 
[email protected] 

Tomas Lind

Using this syntax for the rename:

if `var' != "idnr"    rename  `var'    `k'_`var'

gives me another error:    type mismatch

Austin Nichols

Tomas Lind <[email protected]>:
One way:
if `var' != "idnr" rename  `var'    `k'_`var'

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Tomas Lind <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to rename all my variables (in lots of datasets) except the first variable which is idnr. The problem with the syntax below is that "if is not allowed".
>
> Someone have a solution to this?
>
> /Tomas
>
>
>
> levelsof  atc  ,  local(cat)
>    foreach  k  of local cat {
>           preserve
>           use "G:\ATC-dataset_`k'"  ,  clear
>                 foreach  var  of varlist  _all {
>              rename  `var'    `k'_`var'        if `var' != "idnr"
>                          }
>        save "G: \ATC-dataset_`k'" , replace
>          restore
>                 }
>

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