RE: st: Rename variables

[<R.Alegria@lse.ac.uk>]

Thanks Nikos!!!
It works perfectly.
Thanks also to Maarten and Gauri for their responses.
---Rodrigo

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nikolaos A.
Patsopoulos
Sent: 17 January 2007 11:30
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Rename variables

R.Alegria@lse.ac.uk wrote:
> 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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Try:

 local i=3

 foreach var of varlist var3-var11 {
     rename `var' _`i'
     local i=`i'+1
   }


Nikos



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