Re: st: RE: Rename from UPPER to lowercase

[Ada Ma <pec187@abdn.ac.uk>]

you might also investigate on using the -ds- command, it can saves you the 
effort of typing in the names of a long list of variables.

e.g. if you want to turn all variables's names into lowercase except for AGE, 
SEX, NAME, you can write:

ds AGE SEX NAME, not

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

Alternatively -renvars- also works.



David Harrison wrote:


> Yes, e.g.
>
> foreach v of varlist A B C {
> 	ren `v' `=lower("`v'")'
> }
>
> But for flexible manipulation of variable names (including changing case), look at the -renvars- package:
>
> findit renvars
>
> David
> david@icnarc.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Grillo, MD [mailto:paolo.grillo@guest.unimi.it]
> Sent: 28 January 2005 09:47
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Rename from UPPER to lowercase
>
>
> I would like to rename a lot of varname from UPPER to lower case 
> maintaining the same variable name.
> Is it possible to use foreach?.
> Thanks
> Paolo Grillo
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