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st: copydesc with a twist??
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"Ploutz-Snyder, Robert (JSC-SK)[USRA]" <[email protected]>
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st: copydesc with a twist??
Date
Fri, 7 May 2010 10:37:10 -0500
I'm looking for a quick way to copy variable labels from a set of variables (ex. x1-x100) to a set of new variables (ex. a1-a100), but I need a minor modification of the new labels.
Nicholas' copydesc command comes very close, as I can imbed it in a loop as:
For J in num 1/100: copydesk xJ aJ
But here's the rub. In this case all of the aJ variables are a transformation of xJ. I'd like the transformation to become part of the variable label too.
Here are two variables as a specific example:
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
----------------------------------------------------------------
x2 float %8.0g HeadGy
a2 float %9.0g abs(x2)
I would LIKE the label for a2 to be "abs(HeadGy)" not "abs(x2)". I have a zillion of these, so I don't want to hand-code them all...
Anyone know of an ado already written to do this? Or a way to use copydesc??
Much appreciated,
Rob
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