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| From | "James Beard" <james@beard.net> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Resolving variable name conflicts when renaming |
| Date | Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:37:43 +0545 |
Daniel. Thank you so much. Just what I need! James. On 2 Aug 2013 at 9:32, daniel klein wrote: Your feeling is correct, though it is not an option (or better: an optional argument) in -strtoname()- but the extended function (-help extended_fcn-) -permname- creates unique names for variables to be added. Here is a simple example . sysuse auto ,clear . d mpg . loc newname : permname mpg . di "`newname'" Best Daniel -- Dear Statalisters, [...] But, I don't have control over what the original column names might be, and it's possible, even likely, that the last words will be duplicated across columns. I've written some very mickey mouse code to deal with this by adding 0 to 9 in turn to the names (after reducing the name length to 31 characters if necessary), and checking to see if those names already exist. [...] I sort-of feel there "ought" to be an option in -strtoname()- to do this automatically! * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/