Yes, it works. Thanks a lot!
uli
Nick Cox wrote:
> Try
>
> foreach var of varlist _all {
> local label: variable label `var'
> local lnewlab: subinstr local label "`=char(96)'" "'", all
> label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
> }
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> > -----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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