" numlabel _all, add" sometimes return "mismatched quotes"

[Tianzhu Nie]

Hi,

Sometimes, when I typed " numlabel _all, add", stata would say " mismatched quotes" (even the option "force" was added would not help). Are there any solution?

Thanks a lot!

Best,
Tianzhu

[Clyde Schechter]

It is not obvious what is going on. Can you post an example data set that illustrates this problem?

[daniel klein]

You can break numlabel by strating a label with the single left quote character.

label define foo 42 "`single left quote"
label list foo
capture noisily numlabel foo , add
label drop foo

The single left quote causes problems in other places as well, .e.g. it will breaks levelsof when part of a string variable value.

This could probably be fixed but until then the single left quote is best avoided.

Best
Daniel

[Tianzhu Nie]

Thanks a lot! Clyde and Daniel!