Nick Cox wrote:
> Good. Another solution appears to be
> to escape the usual interpretation of `
>
> with a backslash:
> : subinstr local label "\`" "'", all
which doesn't work. I guess that Stata interprets this as
: subinstr local label "" "'", all
uli
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > Ulrich Kohler
> > Sent: 20 January 2004 17:39
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: st: RE: string replacement
> >
> >
> > Yes, it works. Thanks a lot!
> > uli
> >
> > Nick Cox wrote:
> > > Try
> > >
> > > foreach var of varlist _all {
> > > local label: variable label `var'
> > > local lnewlab: subinstr local label "`=char(96)'" "'", all
> > > label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
> > > }
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > > > Ulrich Kohler
> > > > Sent: 20 January 2004 17:14
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: st: string replacement
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have a dataset were several variables labeled as follows:
> > > >
> > > > "household`s equivalent income"
> > > > ^^^
> > > >
> > > > Please note the sign before the s in household's. It is the
> > > > opening single
> > > > quotation mark, as it is used in Stata to mark local
> > > > macros, combound qoutes
> > > > etc.
> > > >
> > > > I like to change that sign into ', that is a closing single
> > > > qoutation mark.
> > > > The reason for this is, that it seems the fault of this
> > > > sign, that I get some
> > > > unexpected errors, i.e.
> > > >
> > > > . lookfor xyz
> > > > { required
> > > > r(100);
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I tried:
> > > >
> > > > foreach var of varlist _all {
> > > > local label: variable label `var'
> > > > local lnewlab: subinstr local label `"`"' `"'"', all
> > > > label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But this don't work. What else could be done (excluding
> > > > retyping by hand).
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas highly appreciated
> > > > uli
> > > >
> > > >
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