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st: RE: output variables and labels to excel


From   "Radwin, David" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: output variables and labels to excel
Date   Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:04:30 -0400

Caroline, 

Here is an example. `=char(9)' represents the tab character and separates the variable name from the variable label.

****************************************************
sysuse auto, clear

tempname fh
file open `fh' using "myfile.txt", write replace
file write `fh' "Variable name`=char(9)'Variable label" _newline
foreach v of varlist * {
	file write `fh' "`v'`=char(9)'`: variable label `v''" _newline
	}
file close `fh'

type myfile.txt
****************************************************

David
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David Radwin
Senior Research Associate
Education Studies Division
RTI International
2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 800
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-665-8274

www.rti.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Caroline Wilson
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 10:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: output variables and labels to excel
> 
> Hi Stata,
> 
> I'm trying to output the names of all variables in my Stata dataset and
> their labels to an excel file. For example, I would like to end product to
> look like this:
> 
> Variable name     Variable label
> gender            Patient gender
> DOB               Date of birth
> Race              Patient race
> etc.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do this? I tried codebook but it gave me a lot
> more information than I needed, and I also had formatting problems when
> copying and pasting the output into Excel.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any help!
> Caroline


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