Re: st: Adding a suffix to variables in a local macro

["G. Anderson" <ga274@cam.ac.uk>]

Thanks a lot Nick.

That seems to almost work, but leaves the last variable in the initial list 
commod unchanged:

So I get something like tea98 coffee98 sugar98 wheat 

for commod2. 

Have tried this with a few different variables and always seems to skip the 
last one.

Thanks,

Gareth 


On Jun 9 2013, Nick Cox wrote:

> 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
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
> On 9 June 2013 17:37, G. Anderson <ga274@cam.ac.uk> 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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