houseinc* is the wildcard you want. This
is documented at [U] 11.4 and the help for varlist.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
mathew.stalker@dotecon.com
> I don't know if it is possible to refer to a set of variables
> called the
> same thing but all ending in a number, but I'd quite like it to be.
>
> For example, consider a dataset with the variables houseinc1 to
> houseinc100, houseinc_mean and id. It would be nice to be able to do
> something like:
>
> egen houseinc_total=rsum(houseinc#)
> which would sum houseinc1-houseinc100 but exclude housein_mean
>
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