The default behaviour of StatTransfer (in v7 at least) is to change all variable names to lower case - if you are getting upper case variable names then you probably have "Preserve name and label case if possible" checked in the StatTransfer options (I don't know that there is a command line switch for this).
Alternatively the variable names can be converted to lower case by 3 lines of Stata code (provided the lower case names would be unique)...
foreach v of varlist _all {
ren `v' `=lower("`v'")'
}
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ann E Fitzmaurice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 03 September 2004 13:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: statalist-digest V4 #1358
hi
This has been asked before
I am using stat transfer to transfer spss files into stata .dta and the
variable names all come over in capitals, is there a way to create the
stata file with the variable names in lower case
Thanks for your help
Regards
ann
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