Re: st: Problems with:"drawnorm "$varlist"_1, mean(b1) cov(V1)

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Daniele Pacifico wrote:
> In other words, I would like to create 3x5 new variables
> using the same name of the tree main variables (x,y,z)
> but adding  _`c'  at the end of each of them I need to
> find a way that allows me to change automatically the
> number and the name of the variables in varlist.

Here is one way:

*---------------- begin example ------------------
local varl "x y y"

local varl : list retokenize varl
local varl : subinstr local varl " " "_c ", all
local varl "`varl'_c"

di "`varl'"
*----------------- end example ------------------

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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