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RE: st: RE: output variables and labels to excel
From
Caroline Wilson <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: RE: output variables and labels to excel
Date
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:22:11 +0000
This worked perfectly - thank you!
Caroline
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> Subject: st: RE: output variables and labels to excel
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:04:30 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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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>
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>
>> -----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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