Re: st: Changing part of variable names

[live@gmx.net]

Unfortunately, the command

renvars, substr(09 XX)

results in the error message:

option substr() not allowed



-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:02:23 +0200
> Von: Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: Changing part of variable names

> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:56 PM,  <live@gmx.net> wrote:
> > The problem is a bit more complicated. The issue is not that I have 11
> files, but that I have some 400 variables in each file, each variable having
> a year tag at a random place in its name.
> > Examples of variable names: permit09 , hab_ch09 , plingu09 , pdate09 ,
> p09d160 , p09d161 , p09d162 . The "09" is the year tag, and I want to
> replace that with XX or somthing similar using a loop. I checked out the renvars
> package, but I don't see how I can avoid typing 400 variable names with it.
> 
> Than my original answer still applies: use -renvars-
> 
> -- Maarten
> 
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