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| From | "Seed, Paul" <paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk> |
| To | "Seed, Paul" <paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk>, "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: renaming variables |
| Date | Mon, 24 May 2010 15:13:42 +0100 |
And without the typos (for which apologies):
<snip>
clear
sysuse auto
forv i=40(1)107{
gen var`i'=1
}
//-rename2-
loc start 1990
forv i=53(3)107{
ren var`i' year`start'
loc ++start
}
clear
sysuse auto
forv i=40(1)109{
gen var`i'=1
}
//-rename3-
loc start 1990
forv i=53(3)107{
ren var`i' year`start'
local j = `i' + 1
ren var`j' thing_one_`start'
local j = `i' + 2
ren var`j' thing_two_`start'
loc ++start
}
(with acknowledgements to Dr Seuss)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat
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Paul T Seed
King's College London, Division of Reproduction and Endocrinology
St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH
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