Hi, I am working with a panel dataset whose variable names are very different for every wave of the survey. In order to give the variables some meaningful names, I must rename each individual variable. To do this, I typically copy and paste the list of variables from the dataset's website into the do-file, where I then use a loop function to rename them. However, when I paste them, they appear like this

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[[68]V181 [69]V801 [70]V1490 [71]V2202 [72]V2828 [73]V3300 [74]V3720 [75]V4204 [76]V5096 [77]V5662 [78]V6209 [79]V6802 [80]V7447 [81]V8099 [82]V8723 [83]V9408 [84]V11055 [85]V11938 [86]V13565 [87]V14612 [88]V16086 [89]V17483 [90]V18814 [91]V20114 [92]V21420 [93]V23276 [94]ER3944 [95]ER6814 [96]ER9060 [97]ER11848 [99]ER15928 [01]ER19989 [03]ER23426 [05]ER27393 [07]ER40565 [09]ER46543 [11]ER51904 [13]ER57659 [15]ER64810 [17]ER70882
The variable above is the variable for a person's income. The number in the bracket is the year corresponding to the measure. For example, V181 is a person's income in 1968. V801 is a person's income in 1969, etc.

I'd like to delete the brackets and everything in them, so that the pasted variable names then look like this:

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V181  V801  V1490  V2202  V2828  V3300  V3720  V4204  V5096  V5662  V6209  V6802  V7447  V8099  V8723  V9408  V11055  V11938  V13565  V14612  V16086  V17483  V18814  V20114  V21420  V23276  ER3944  ER6814  ER9060  ER11848  ER15928  ER19989  ER23426  ER27393  ER40565  ER46543  ER51904  ER57659  ER64810  ER70882
Is there an easier way to do this besides deleting the brackets and their contents one by one?