too many wildcards in newname

[kamalesh pahurkar]

foreach v of varlist _stat_14 - _stat_5956 {
2. local x : variable label `v'
3. rename `v' `x'
4. }
too many wildcards in newname
You requested _stat_14 be renamed _b[11105b.ind_code]. There are more wildcards in new than in old. Wildcards in old and new correspond one-to-one from left-to-right
unless you specify explicit subscripts in new. Anyway, rename ran out of wildcards in old when matching the wildcards in new. Perhaps you just made a mistake or perhaps you
forgot an explicit subscript in new. Or perhaps you forgot to specify option addnumber, which allows you to specify an extra #, (#), (##), ...



I want to replace a variable name with variable label, but getting this error.

[Nick Cox]

Many variable labels are unsuitable (indeed illegal) as variable names. That is my guess at the real problem here.

local x = strtoname("`: var label `v''")