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

Others had quite different guesses at what this 
meant. My guess is what you seek is -egen, seq()-. 

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

Yang Li
 
> Could anyone advice how to generate variable name with a incremental 
> counter in it.
> What I intend to do is:
> local i=0
> gen var'i'=a-b (suggestion required)
> i=i+1
> 

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