st: quotes and double-quotes problems

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

Stata drives me crazy with all its quotes and double-quotes.  I am trying 
to get value labels returned the same way that mlogit does it, e.g. if the 
labels are

Very SD
Somewhat "D"
I `Strongly' Agree

(Labels deliberately chosen to cause as much trouble as possible.) mlogit 
will return in e(eqnames)

`"Very SD"' `""Somewhat" D"' `"I `strongly' agree"'

which will parse as 3 different words.  Now, I know how to get the value 
labels, but I can't for the life of me get all the quotes and double-quotes 
right, e.g. I do something like

        forval i = 1/3 {
                local vlabel: label(`y') `i'
                local vlabels `vlabels' `vlabel'
        }


and it of course doesn't work right.  But, I've also tried also sorts of 
combos involving `" and "' and it still never comes out right - I always 
wind up with extra or missing quotes and double-quotes.  Any help would be 
appreciated.

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