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st: RE: RE: RE: RE: SImple question on "describe"


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: RE: RE: SImple question on "describe"
Date   Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:31:23 +0100

This line is offered for sacrifice. 

Sorry; the opening lines got chopped. 

tokenize `varlist'
local i 0
while !missing("``++i''") {
	local lab`i' : var lab ``i''
      label var ``i'' `"``i'': `lab`i''"'
}

was the code being slimmed down. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 21 June 2006 09:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: SImple question on "describe"
> 
> 
> can be boiled down to 
> 
> 	foreach v of local varlist { 
> 	        label var `v' `"`v': `: var label `v''"'
>      }
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of 
> > David Harrison
> > Sent: 21 June 2006 09:09
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: st: RE: RE: SImple question on "describe"
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, some of my code got a little mixed up there... 
> > Corrected version
> > below... 
> > 
> > prog tablevl
> >     version 8
> >     syntax varlist(min=1 max=3) [if] [in] [fw aw pw iw] [, *]
> >     tokenize `varlist'
> >     local i 0
> >     while !missing("``++i''") {
> >         local lab`i' : var lab ``i''
> >         label var ``i'' `"``i'': `lab`i''"'
> >     }
> >     cap nois table `varlist' `if' `in' [`weight' `exp'], `options'
> >     local rc _rc
> >     local i 0
> >     while !missing("``++i''") {
> >         label var ``i'' `"`lab`i''"'
> >     }
> >     if `rc' {
> >         exit `rc'
> >     }
> > end
> > 
> > 

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