Re: st: rename variables UPPERCASE to lowercase

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

At 12:59 PM 4/26/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to convert all variable names from UPPERCASE to lowercase.  How can 
> I do that?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Ada Ma

        . foreach var of varlist * {
        . rename `v' `=lower("`v'")'
        . }


This will cycle through every variable in the dataset, renaming each to its 
equivalent, all-lower-case self.

Or I'm sure there are canned solutions out there, but this is a case, for 
me at least, where knowing a bit about -foreach- and local macros is far 
easier than remembering which canned solution does this little job...

--Nick Winter



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