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Re: st: How to rename a list of all consecutive variables in a data set?
From
Amir Sariaslan <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to rename a list of all consecutive variables in a data set?
Date
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:55:15 +0100
Eleonora,
Try looping it. Something along the lines of:
foreach `var' of varlist varalpha-varomega {
rename `var' new`var'
}
/Amir
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Eleonora Paesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to rename a list of consecutive variables
> included in a dataset (as they are ordered in it)?
> I have tried this:
> rename varalpha-varomega newvaralpha-newvaromega
> It does not work.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> Eleonora
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