Label variables using loop

[Vidou Riddhy]

Hello stata community,

first post here! i have q14_1 q14_2 and q14_3 as variable name and its label is Skill/Majors 1, Skill/Majors 2, Skill/Majors 3
I;d like to change variables' label by using shorter command instead of:

label var q14_1 "Skill/Majors 1"
label var q14_2 "Skill/Majors 2"
label var q14_3 "Skill/Majors 3"

Is there any short command like loop?

Thank in advance! that would save lots of time with my cleaning process.

[Chen Samulsion]

I recommend a user-written command -labvars-. daniel klein is its author, and it is a part of the integrated program named -labutil2- now. You can search it in Stata command window and install, or just type ssc install labvars to install. As to your case, you can try the following code:

labvars q14_1 q14_2 q14_3 \ "Skill/Majors 1" "Skill/Majors 2" "Skill/Majors 3"

[Nick Cox]

forval j = 1/3 { 
     label var q14_`j' "Skill/Majors `j'"
}

[daniel klein]

Thanks for mentioning labvars (SSC). I consider labvars superseded by elabel (SSC, SJ, GitHub); the corresponding syntax is either

elabel variable (q14_1 q14_2 q14_3) ("Skill/Majors 1" "Skill/Majors 2" "Skill/Majors 3")

or

elabel variable q14_1 "Skill/Majors 1" q14_2 "Skill/Majors 2" q14_3 "Skill/Majors 3"

neither of which I find convenient for this particular problem. I would go with the suggested loop in #3 here.

[Vidou Riddhy]

Thank you Nick Cox for your help! it works perfectly. You're a life savior.
Thank you Chen Samulsion and daniel klein that's another way of doing it. <3