st: RE: Saving the "j" values in a local after reshape

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Before the -reshape- 

levelsof year, local(levels) 

(In the current Facebook-free-copy-of-Stata-to-be-given-away-extravaganza-votefest, a few people named -levelsof- as their favourite Stata command!) 

After the -reshape- 

unab years : year* 
local years : subinstr local years "year" "", all 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Davide Cantoni

when using -reshape-, is there any way to save the levels of the "j" variable?

To make my question clearer: a typical -reshape- command will return the output

 *** begin output

. reshape wide inc, i(id) j(year)
(note: j = 1980 1982 1983 1987)

Data                               wide   ->   long
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** end output

So the question is: can this list of numbers (in the example above,
"1980 1982 1983 1987") be saved as a local, for future use?


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