Re: st: case conversion

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 04:37 PM 3/21/2004 -0500, Eric Uslaner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some country names in a data set.  I want to convert the names
> in the variable "country" from all upper case to first letter upper and
> the rest lower (e.g., "ALBANIA"becomes "Albania").  I have found the
> string functions lower and upper, but I don't see any option to convert
> just the first letter.  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Ric Uslaner
> euslaner@gvpt.umd.edu
. replace country = substr(country,1,1) + lower(substr(country,2,.))

I think this does what you said, but it may not be what you want, e.g. 
"UNITED STATES" would become "United states".  Perhaps somebody has already 
written a fnc for such a purpose?


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