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st: RE: calling variables


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: calling variables
Date   Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:16:22 -0000

I am not quite clear on what the problem 
here is. If you have variables up to 

var_1_9912 

that should be followed by variables 
from 

var_1_0001 

then put your variables in order by 
something like this 

foreach y of numlist 52/99 0/5 { 
	local Y : di %02.0f `y' 
	local varlist "`varlist' var_1_`Y'*" 
} 
order `varlist' 

Alternatively, -reshape- so that observations, 
not variables, define time. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Hans J. Baumgartner
 
> I’ve got data that is coded as follows:
> 
> var_1_yymm , var_2_yymm and so on.
> 
> If I would like to call the variables var_1 between January 2000 and 
> February2001 I though I could use
> 
> var_1_0001-var_1_0102
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not calling the expected vars but those vars 
> located in the dataset between var_1_0001 and var_1_0102.
> 
> How can I address the desired vars?
> 
> N.B. I’ll call the vars within a loop that shifts the time period 
> forwards and backwards. Hence, I cannot call the vars individually.
> 

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