Hello Maoyang,
You can also do the following
foreach var of varlist * {
command referring to `v'
}
there is one problem with this program, if there are some variables are
string variables, and the command need to deal with only non-string ones,
you should add a capture to the command, e.g.
foreach var of varlist * {
capture replace `v'=`v'*`v'
}
or simply list the variable names:
foreach var in var1 var2 ... varn {
capture replace `v'=`v'*`v'
}
other
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renzo Comolli" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: st: How to get the variable name
> Dear Maoyong,
>
> I am not sure what you are asking about, but if you are asking to perform
> the same operation on all variables, then do the following
>
> foreach v of varlist _all {
> command referring to `v'
> }
>
>
> Best,
> Renzo
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----
> *From "Maoyong Fan" <[email protected]>
> To "statalist" <[email protected]>
> Subject st: How to get the variable name
> Date Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:58:12 -0800
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I just wonder how can I get the list of varibale name automatically
> instead of looking at describe list. If I can get the list of the
variable
> name and store them into a local variable, I could use "foreach var in
local
> var" to do data management on each variable. Because I have do deal with
> more than 100 stata data files and do some data management for each data
> file. Using loop will same a lot of time than do that manually.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Maoyong Fan
>
>
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