RE: st: Rename variables

["Gauri Khanna" <gwkhanna@hotmail.com>]

Rodrigo,

A partial solution:


You could type the following:
-------------------------
local variables var21 var22 var23

foreach var of local variables {
      generate `var'_n = `var'
}

ds
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This is a partial solution because:

1. Here you generate a new variable not rename.
2. Each variable has _n attached but which is not exactly what you want 
which is_1 to _200

Sorry for the partial solution.

Gauri

> From: <R.Alegria@lse.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: Rename variables
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:16:49 -0000
>
> Dear list,
>
> I have a dataset with 220 variables. I would like to rename the last 200
> variables with a numerical ordered name.
> That is, from var21 to var200 I would like to rename them from _1 to
> _200.
>
> Is there any way of doing this at the same time for the 200 variables
> instead of going one by one using:
>
> Rename var21 _1
> Rename var22 _2
> .....
> Rename var200 _200
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> ---Rodrigo
>
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