Replace label name with variable name

[Seyi Soremekun]

Hi All,
I'd like to replace the current variable labels in a set of datasets with their corresponding variable name.
I have 7 datasets containing lab results from 7 countries, and I need to correct misleading/non-intuitive labels quickly, and the variable names will suffice..
The variables in question are named sequentially plate1-plateX (the X in "plateX" above is a different number in each dataset).

Essentially the opposite of the solution in this forum thread.
Can this be done as easily? Ideally if there were a command that would do this (that I may have missed in my searching), then I can loop it through all 7 datasets.

Hopefully this issue is simple enough to not need to upload example data or code but I'm happy to do so if needed.


Many thanks,
Shay

[William Lisowski]

Perhaps this will start you on your way; code to be run in each of your datasets.

foreach v of varlist plate* {
    label variable `v' "`v'"
}

[Seyi Soremekun]

Thank you this works perfectly. I was able to solve similarly by invoking old code:

for var plate*: label var X X