In case Steve Dubnoff is listening, StatTransfer would be even better if we
had the option of changing the case of variable names without changing the
case of variable labels. As David implies, this matters less when
converting to Stata than when converting to some other packages, because we
have -rename- in official Stata and -renvars- in unofficial Stata. However,
I suspect that not many people want to change the case of variable labels
when converting from one package to another.
Roger
At 13:38 03/09/2004, David Harrison wrote:
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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