Hi all,

I have a extrange combination of quotes and asterisk in variable label in my data base... Lamentably I can not remove asterisk and/or quotes in variable label.


I am using a loop because this "kind" of label repeat in diferents variables. I tried with differents combinations:

Example:

Code:
clear all
set more off
sysuse auto

label var foreign `""*Fool label*""'

local varlabel : var label foreign
local newname = subinstr("`varlabel'","*","",.)
label variable `var' "`newname'"


Foollabel not found


local varlabel : var label foreign
local newname = subinstr("`varlabel'",`"*',"",.)
label variable `var' "`newname'"


too few quotes
Please, any comments I would gratefull.
Regards