Try
foreach var of varlist _all {
local label: variable label `var'
local lnewlab: subinstr local label "`=char(96)'" "'", all
label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
}
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Ulrich Kohler
> Sent: 20 January 2004 17:14
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: string replacement
>
>
> 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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