Radu Ban writes:
> 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?
Put `name' in quotes in the substr() function.
Tom
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