st: labels as values of a string variable

["R.E. De Hoyos" <redeho@hotmail.com>]

I want to attach labels to a group of variables (varlist).

The labels that I want to use for each variable are available as 
observations in one of the variables (string). I tried the following:

levels string, local(labels)
tokenize `lables'

* An error occurred because the string values contained spaces. Therefore I 
tried:

egen id = group(string)    //20 groups
local i=1
while `i'<21 {
   preserve
   keep if id==`i'
   local label`i' = "string[_n]"
   local i = `i'+1
   restore
}

When I used -di `label1'- the label names where correctly displayed. However 
when I tried to attached them to the variables using -label var- :

label var var1 "`label1'"

The label attached was "string[_n]" and not the value of it.

Many thanks,

Rafa

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R.E. De Hoyos
Faculty of Economics
University of Cambridge
CB3 9DE, UK
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd/red29 
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