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Re: st: Adding a suffix to variables in a local macro
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Adding a suffix to variables in a local macro
Date
Sun, 9 Jun 2013 17:43:42 +0100
local commod2 : subinstr local commod " " "98 ", all
local commod3 : subinstr local commod2 "98" "99", all
Such trickery in this kind of context is also documented at
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/problems-with-reshape/
-- not that I expect anyone apart from me to know or remember that.
Search for "unab" in that FAQ.
Nick
[email protected]
On 9 June 2013 17:37, G. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a large list of variables, from which I have created a local macro:
>
> local commod tea coffee sugar wheat
> I also have variables in my data set, which refer to specific years, so I
> have variables tea98, coffee98, sugar98, wheat98 etc
>
> I would like to create a local macro referring to each year, so:
>
> local commod98 tea98 coffee98 sugar98 wheat98
>
> local commod99 tea99 coffee99 sugar99 wheat 99
>
> etc.
>
> Is there a way to do this, referring to local commod and adding the the
> suffix "98" "99" etc?
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