st: RE: label to string

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

This is what -decode- does. 

Admittedly, every label is (usually) repeated. If you wanted 
each value and label pair just once, you could 

contract myvar 
decode myvar, gen(labelvar) 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Hans J. Baumgartner
 
> is there any possibility to save labels as string vars?

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