Raphael,
I assume you want to keep the extension.
local files: dir . files "*.csv"
foreach f of local files {
local fnew = substr("`f'",1,4)
shell ren "`f'" "`fnew'.csv"
}
Friedrich
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Raphael Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to rename the file names below using the first four
> characters in the file name in Stata?
>
> 018b_crp_13april08.0101.csv
> 020b_crp_26apr08.0101.csv
> 027b_crp_05april08.0101.csv
> 032bb_crp_06april08.0101.csv
>
> Raphael
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