Remove specific characters from all value labels

[John Johnson]

I'm trying to remove specific phrases each time they occur in every value label of my dataset. For example, I want to remove the text "[DON'T READ]" in the label "[DON'T READ] Don't know".
This problem is similar to this resolved Statlist question, except I am trying to change value labels and not variable labels.

I tried this, but I get an r(198) "invalid syntax" error. Perhaps am going about this in entirely the wrong way. Is it even possible to do this?

foreach i of varlist _all {
local a : value label `i'
local a: subinstr local a "[DON'T READ] " ""
label define `i' "`a'"
}

[daniel klein]

See labutil2 (SSC) and therein labvalch3

labvalch3 * , strfcn(subinstr("@", "[DON'T READ]", "", .))

Edit: If you wanted to program this yourself, you would need to loop through all integer to text mappings inside the value labels.

Best
Daniel

[John Johnson]

Really nice solution, Daniel. Thanks!