RE: st: Changing characters and letters in all value labels

[maria t <majvardrup@hotmail.com>]

Thanks Nick.

Maj

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> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:00:15 +0100
> Subject: Re: st: Changing characters and letters in all value labels
> From: njcoxstata@gmail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> Look in Daniel Klein's -labutil2- (SSC).
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 24 October 2013 09:48, maria t <majvardrup@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi statalist members,
>>
>> I would like to remove certain letters and characters in all my value labels and replace them with other ones.
>>
>> I have used the following program to change the letter "z" to "a" in all the variable labels, but I can't find out how to do the same for the value labels.
>>
>> Foreach i of varlist_all {
>>
>> local a: variable label `i'
>>
>> local a: subinstr local a "z" "a"
>>
>> label var `i' "a"
>>
>> }
>>
>> I would be very grateful if any of you could help me solve this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Maj
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