Personally, I think it is poor practice to omit units of measurement. (I
am just revising a lecture on graphics in which mentioning units is a
key point.)
That said, you need extended macro functions. Start at -help macro-.
Either get your variable names into a local macro, e.g. by using -ds-.
foreach v of local varlist {
local label : var label `v'
local label : subinstr local label "(cm sq)" "", all
local label : subinstr local label "(cm)" "", all
label var `v' "`label'"
}
Or, naturally,
foreach v of var <whatever> {
Many people call () parentheses, or possibly round brackets, [] brackets
or square brackets, {} braces, or curvy brackets. I think the
parentheses terminology is more precise; just referring to brackets can
be ambiguous.
Nick
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Miranda Kim
I have variable labels that have various units in brackets: (cm) (cm sq)
etc. and I want to remove these from the label.
How can I search a string for the portion between brackets (including
the brackets) and replace this with a blank?
For example if my variable area has the following label: "area (cm sq)
of ..."
I want to replace the label with : "area of ..."
I have many variables so I want to automate this rather than having to
type in individual labels...
I use stata v10
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