Wildcard with exception

[Pratap Pundir]

I have a variable location, which I am splitting, e.g.

split location, p(", ")

This generates location1, location2, location3 etc
At one point I would like to drop all the newly generated variables, but not the original one. If I try

drop location*

that drops the original variable too because apparently wildcard * can take any values including nothing.
Is there a wildcard in Stata that does not include nothing?

[Clyde Schechter]

drop location?*

[Pratap Pundir]

Oh, that's clever. I should have thought of it. Thanks!