There are indeed other ways to rename variables.
Naturally, they all use -rename- at some point.
Apart from -rename- itself, -renvars- is one
user-written command. -search renvars- and
download from the STB site.
However, I am not clear that you need to
rename at all in your case.
Nick
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Scheller, Percy Eckhard
> i want to create a timeseries table of a least 5 datasets and
> a multiresponse question with 26 items/variables using the
> 'mrtab' command.
>
> unfortunatelly the set of 26 variables has different names,
> like m78ort, m78wiss ... for the 1978 dataset and m02ort,
> m02wiss for the 2002 dataset. therefor i appended the
> datasets and tried to rename the variables with the renpfix
> command to an less specified name (mort etc.). but this
> works only once. if the variables are already defined you get
> the error "variable already defined".
>
> do i missunderstood the command or is there an other way to
> rename a bunch of variables?
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