Independently, Nick Winter has suggested what
I suggested as a solution using only official
commands. However, his version is correct
in remembering the " " in
. rename `v' `=lower("`v'")'
and mine is incorrect.
Nick
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Nick Winter
> >I need to convert all variable names from UPPERCASE to
> lowercase. How can
> >I do that?
>
> . 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...
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