Dear all,
I have a lot of variables of the type
xyz101 xyz105 xyz211...
and I want to label them like this:
label var xyz101 "[description] 101"
I would like to know whether I can speed up this labelling process, since
I have over a hundred of these variables.
I tried the following piece of code:
foreach `name' of varlist xyz* {
local code = substr(`name', -3, .)
label var `name' `"indigineous input # `code'"'
}
but it gives me a type mismatch, which makes me believe -substr- is trying
to extract the string out of the variable itself not its name. Can anyone
point the way oout?
Thanks in advance,
Radu Ban
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