On 20/02/2008, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- K. Jensen wrote:
> > I would like to obtain the name of a variable's value label
> > programatically within a loop.
>
> You can do that using extended macro function, see:
> -help extended_fcn- and the example below:
>
> *------------ begin example ---------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> foreach var of varlist _all {
> local lab : value label `var'
> di "`lab'"
> }
> *------------ end example -----------------
Thanks Martin. You're wonderful!
I hate to say but I forgot to ask my follow up question:-
How could I put the values and labels of a specific value label into a
local macro
i.e. for the auto data
. label list origin
origin:
0 Domestic
1 Foreign
two lists containing (0,1) and ("Domestic", "Foreign")
Thankyou yet again
Karin
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