how to do _all except a few certain variables

[Wendy Jane]

i want to use the "foreach var of varlist all" command to do functions to every variable except three variables i have

[daniel klein]

Then skip those three variables:

foreach var of varlist _all {
    if inlist("`var'", "skip_var1", "skip_var2", "skip_var3") {
        continue
    }
    ...
}

where skip_var indicates the names of the variables you want to skip.

[Mike Lacy]

While Daniel's solution is short and clear, I've had related situations in which manipulating the too-inclusive variable list with various macro functions is useful, such as:

unab MyVarList: _all
local droplist = "var1 var2 var3"
local MyVarList: list MyVarList - droplist

[Wendy Jane]

Thank you!