st: once again -reshape- and labels

[Andrea Bennett <mac.stata@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

I thought I should be able to succeed myself in doing a -reshape long-  
and preserve the variable's label, e.g. I have Ax1 Ax2 Ax3 with every  
Ax1-Ax3 having the very same label, but even though having a look at http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/variables.html 
 and trying to borrow from there, I couldn't get it to work. I now  
have stored the first variable's label of each variable I need to  
reshape (e.g. the label for Ax1 Bx1 Cx1) but cannot get it applied to  
the new variables (after reshape) which are called Ax, Bx and Cx.

My code so far:

local lrshp "Ax1 Bx1 Cx1"

foreach v of var `lrshp' {
	local l`v' : variable label `v'
 	if `"`l`v''"' == "" {
 		local l`v' "`v'"
 	}
}


Does any of you macro masters have a good line of help?

Many thanks for your consideration,

Andrea


P.S. If someone got an idea for automatically renaming Ax, Bx and Cx  
to A, B, and C, that would be great, too.
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