Re: st: entire contents of a value label

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

At 1:53 PM -0500 12/1/04, Kit Baum wrote:
> use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/labelbook1.dta,clear
> * zap one to make sure that it works with gaps
> label define rs015 3 "", modify
> label list rs015
>
> forv i=`r(min)'/`r(max)' {
> 	local labval: label rs015 `i'
> 	if ("`labval'" ~= "`i'") local rs015lab "`rs015lab' | `labval'"
> 	}
> di "`rs015lab'"

Thanks very much to Nick (C), Kit, and Nick (W) for responding to my 
question.  I hadn't realized that -label list- stores the minimum and 
maximum of the mapping's domain in r() (had I read the manual more 
carefully, I would have known this).  Assuming that the mapping 
consists of a contiguous set of integers (e.g., like those generated 
by -encode-), then Kit's solution is fully efficient for what I'd 
wanted to do.


-- Phil
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/