Extracting label names based on values

[HP Williams]

Hello
I have a program that labels some tables of STATA output with variable names based on a varlist

I can extract the value label from var `v' using:

local labval : value label `v'

and then get the label list using:

label list `labval'

which gives me some output like this (for variable race as an example)

race_:
          -1 Unknown
           1 White
           2 Black
           3 Asian
           4 Pacific Islands
           5 Native American
           6 Other

I want to be able to get the string of the label based on the number which corresponds to the label - eg some command that if I know that race = 2, I get "Black" out from the race_ value label. I cant seem to figure out how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks for the help

hpw

[daniel klein]

local label : label (`v') 2

Also, see elabel (SSC, SJ, GitHub).

[HP Williams]

thanks! thats exactly what I needed