Hello,

I'm exporting descriptive statistics using putexcel in Stata 14 and have been struggling to export variable labels. Based on advice on this forum and elsewhere, I'm using the following code but get an error "(: expression must be enclosed in ()".

Code:
local row = 4
foreach x of varlist $varlist {
...
local varlabel : var label `x'
putexcel A`row' = ("`varlabel'")
...
}
I've checked and the label is correctly stored in varlabel (display "`varlabel'") and the putexcel command works well when exporting a phrase (putexcel A`row'=("label of variable")). Do you know what the issue might be here?

Many thanks,

Ioana