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st: Re: Replacing certain characters in variable labels.
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Anna Reimondos <[email protected]>
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st: Re: Replacing certain characters in variable labels.
Date
Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:37:48 +1000
After a bit more exploration I found the solution:
foreach i of varlist _all {
local a : variable label `i'
local a: subinstr local a "’" "'"
label var `i' "`a'"
}
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Anna Reimondos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently cleaning a dataset but am having some trouble with the
> variable labels. The variable labels are related to the wording of the
> actual question in the survey.
> For example for the first variable the variable name should "A
> woman's job is to stay at home?"
>
> However whenever apostrophes are displayed strangely so that in the
> dataset the name looks like "A woman’s job is to stay at home?".
>
> What I would like to do is to replace all occurrences of "’" with an
> apostrophe instead " ' ".
>
> I attempted to do this but it did not work and I am not really sure
> what I am doing...
>
> foreach i of varlist _all {
> local a: variable label `i'
> local a: subinstr("`a'","’","'",.)
> label var `i' "`a'"
> }
>
> Any help or tips would be much appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Anna
>
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