Please ignore previous.
What is apparent is that you need compound double quotes,
but I couldn't get those to work either.
This is my best offering.
foreach v of var * {
local lbl : var label `v'
local lbl = proper("`lbl'")
label var `v' "`lbl'"
}
However, my test was
foobar's son
-- but
proper("foobar's son")
yields
Foobar'S Son
which isn't my view of proper English.
Incidentally, there is a -labutil- package on SSC.
I don't know any package called -labutils-.
"suite" has no Stata meaning that I know of.
Nick
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Dimitriy V. Masterov
> I am trying to convert my variable labels to proper case, so that
> instead of "government office region" I have "Government Office
> Region". I used this code:
> foreach var of varlist _all {;
> set trace on;
> lab var `var' "`=proper("`:var label `var''")'";
> };
>
> but it runs into problem when there are apostrophes in the label. I
> checked out the labutils suite, but I don't think there's a solution
> there.
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