st: RE: Tokenize macro with quotes

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

There seem to be two very distinct issues here. 

To export labels in a string variable: Quite how you are going to do this is not clear, but starting with -labellist- (SSC) seems a very long way round. What's wrong with -decode-? 

To -tokenize- a macro: You don't say exactly what you tried and exactly what happened. Try something like this: 

. local beasts `" `"toad"' `"frog"' `"newt"' "'

. tokenize `"`beasts'"'

. mac li
<stuff> 
_3:             newt
_2:             frog
_1:             toad

If this doesn't work for you, again we need to see exactly what you try and exactly what happened. 

However, as implied, I doubt you need this at all. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Cook, Daniel E

I'm trying to use postfile to add a variables labels as part of a summary table. My issue is finding a way to get the labels into a string variable for export.

I'm using labellist (not a part of the normal stata distribution.

So I use labellist to return a list of the labels and this is the return output (I am working with genetics here).
r(labels) : "`"AA"' `"AG"' `"GG"'"

When I try to use tokenize then (in order to grab each label individually) it doesn't work. I believe it has to do with the presence of all the quotes.

How can I get this to work with tokenize or is there a better alternative?


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