hi all,
I have a dataset were several variables labeled as follows:
"household`s equivalent income"
^^^
Please note the sign before the s in household's. It is the opening single
quotation mark, as it is used in Stata to mark local macros, combound qoutes
etc.
I like to change that sign into ', that is a closing single qoutation mark.
The reason for this is, that it seems the fault of this sign, that I get some
unexpected errors, i.e.
. lookfor xyz
{ required
r(100);
I tried:
foreach var of varlist _all {
local label: variable label `var'
local lnewlab: subinstr local label `"`"' `"'"', all
label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
}
But this don't work. What else could be done (excluding retyping by hand).
Any ideas highly appreciated
uli
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