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Re: st: Re-labelling multiple variables
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Re-labelling multiple variables
Date
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:24:30 -0400
sysuse auto, clear
ds
local y=2001
foreach v in `r(varlist)' {
di "`v'"
label variable `v' `"grsapechildold`y'"'
local y=`y'+1
}
describe
*** data preparation done
ds
foreach v in `r(varlist)' {
local l `"`: variable label `v''"'
local l=subinstr(`"`l'"',"grsapechildold","Dependency Ratio (%), ",.)
label variable `v' `"`l'"'
}
describe
Best, Sergiy
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Konrad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statlist readers,
>
> I would like to rename a set of variables by replacing a part of a string in variable label with another string. For instance, I imported a number of variables correponding to dependecy ratios. After the import each variable has a label grsapechildoldYEAR, I would like to replace first word with more meaningful text.
>
> local changvrs grsapechildold2003 - grsapechildold2011
> foreach var of varlist `changvrs' {
> label `var' regexr(`var', "grsapechildold", "Dependency Ratio (%)")
> }
>
> I don’t know how to mix string replacement commands with variable labelling. As usual, any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Konrad
>
>
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