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Re: st: Dropping variables in USE statement


From   daniel klein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Dropping variables in USE statement
Date   Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:07:51 +0100

William,

have a look at -usesome- (SSC).

As I understand your query, the syntax should be

usesome D4* D5* D6* using DATASET ,not

Best
Daniel

-- 
Hi Statalist,

Is there a way to drop variables on the use statement? I am bringing
in Stata dataset with too many variables (transferred over from SAS
which is a pain to drop variables because I don't think I can drop
variables with a *).

Ideally I would like to process use DATASET, drop D4* D5* D6* etc

Anyway to approach this besides going back to the original dataset in SAS?
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