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Re: st: Dropping variables in USE statement


From   William Sankey <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Dropping variables in USE statement
Date   Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:13:08 -0400

Great, I did not know about this procedure, thank you.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM, daniel klein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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