Re: st: How do I put a value of a local macro into a variable label

[Andreas Daniel <andreas.daniel@uni-bielefeld.de>]

Dear Christophe, dear Nick,

thank you for your help, especially for the literature reference!!

Andy

Am 27.01.2012 14:10, schrieb Nick Cox:
> At a guess what you want to is associate 1 2 3 4 with a b c d
> respectively. There are several ways to do this. Here is one.
>
> tokenize "1 2 3 4"
> local i = 1
> foreach w in a b c d {
>           label var `w'var "Variable of wave ``i'' "
>           local ++i
> }
>
> Your example would permit simpler solutions because the values are
> just 1 2 3 4, but I've given a more general technique.
>
> There is a more complete discussion including other solutions in
>
> http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=pr0009
>
> which is accessible to anyone regardless of being a subscriber to the
> Stata Journal.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andreas Daniel
> <andreas.daniel@uni-bielefeld.de>  wrote:
>
> > is there a way to put the values of a local macro into a variable label
> > using a ,foreach loop, like
> >
> >
> > local wave 1 2 3 4
> >
> > foreach w in a b c d {
> >
> > label var `w'var "Variable of wave `wave' "
> >
> > }
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