st: RE: RE: reshaping a large number of variables (correction)

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

> 
> foreach v of var *v1 { 
> 	local mylist "`mylist' `=substr("`v'",1,length("`v'")-2)'" 
> } 
> reshape long `mylist', i(id) j(villagenr) string 
> 

You might well need compound double quotes in that: 

foreach v of var *v1 { 
	local mylist `"`mylist' `=substr("`v'",1,length("`v'")-2)'"' 
} 


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