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

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You appear to have missed the -unab- route

unab my98 : *98
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 9 June 2013 18:16, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are correct, but there is a simple fix
>
> local commod2 `commod2'98
>
> A more systematic approach is
>
> local commod2
> foreach w of local commod {
>              local commod2 `commod2' `w'98
> }
>
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 9 June 2013 18:12, G. Anderson <ga274@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 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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