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Re: st: Stata 12 bug report: -rename- with wild card (*) used in do-file
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Stata 12 bug report: -rename- with wild card (*) used in do-file
Date
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:13:24 +0100
-renvars- is from SJ. If you are using Stata 12, I'd recommend that
you learn -rename-. -renvars- yields no royalties to its authors, so
you would be cheating no one.
Nick
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Gundi Knies <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks for the suggestions.
> turns out I had a redundant version control in my do-file (i.e. switching to
> Stata 11), and this wild card was only implemented in version 12.
> thanks also for pointing me to -renvars. it's neat.
On 08/08/2012 16:09, William Buchanan wrote:
>> Why not use one of the -renvars- functions if the only thing you are doing
>> is substituting "_" with "1_"? Seems like it would make things much easier.
On Aug 8, 2012, at 7:54, Gundi Knies <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I was planning to use -renpfix- to change a series of variable prefixes
>>> in my data file but noted that users are pointed toward using -rename-
>>> instead. Fine ..
>>> Now, the issue is that I found that the following command does the
>>> desired renames if I execute it interactively in Stata 12, but not when I
>>> include it in a do-file:
>>> rename *_* *1_*
>>> The error message suggests the wild card * is an invalid name"=.
>>> Am I missing something?
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