Great, I did not know about this procedure, thank you.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM, daniel klein
<klein.daniel.81@gmail.com> 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
>
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> 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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