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st: RE: Read variable labels


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Read variable labels
Date   Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:53:42 +0000

In addition, it may be worth knowing about -label language-. 

Also, if the long labels were ever thought good, you might want them again in the future, so various ways of backing up might be considered. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Nick Cox 

Suppose you want to replace "University" by "U" in a bunch of variable labels. 

foreach v of var * { 
	local label : var label `v' 
	local label : subinstr local label "University" "U", all 
	label var `v' `"`label'"' 
} 

The key stuff here is documented at help -extended_fcn-. As Maarten was remarking only the other day, it's sometimes easier to remember to go to the help for -macro- and then jump. 

-varm- is good for doing this for a few labels. 

Liao, Junlin

Does anyone know how to read out variable labels? For example, I have a group of variables with long labels. I want to programmatically shorten the labels by replacing keywords. How do I get the variable labels in functions?

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