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st: looping to rename variable names


From   Kate Xu <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: looping to rename variable names
Date   Fri, 3 Aug 2012 02:41:35 +0100

Hi All,

I would like to program a loop in STATA to change the name a long list
of variables ending with "_" and a letter, like these:

ab1535_a
ab32343_b
ab089790_g
ab3434_t
...........

I want to change them into

ab1535
ab32343
ab089790
ab3434
...........

I can use
ds ab*_*
local oldname `r(varlist)'

for each foreach i of local oldname {
rename `i' ????
}

I don't know how to complete this loop, Is there a way to program this please?

Thanks a lot!

Kate
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