Alphabetical order of value label names when listing them

[Rossella Greco]

I need to double-check the output of some variable recoding based on value label content. I recoded the values according to the content of the label, and used

labdu, delete

in order to delete those value labels that are not used anymore.

I want to double check that the recoding went well, so I am comparing the lists of value label before and after the (recode+labdu, delete) process.
It would be very useful if I could order the value label names in alphabetical order for comparison.

label list

does not give them in alphabetical order. Is there any way of producing a list of value label names and content in alphabetical order?

Thanks!

[daniel klein]

labdu is part of labutil2 (SSC).

Listing value labels alphabetically is easily achieved using macro lists. Here is an example

sysuse nlsw88
label dir
local allnames `r(names)'
local sortnames : list sort allnames
label list `sortnames'

Best
Daniel

[Joe Canner]

Rossella,

You can also use labelbook.

Regards,
Joe

[Rossella Greco]

Thank you!