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st: RE: Change value labels to lowercase


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Change value labels to lowercase
Date   Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:10:55 +0100

. label def upper 1 STATA 2 IS 3 THE 4 NAME 

. labvallc upper lower

. lab li lower
lower:
           1 stata
           2 is
           3 the
           4 name

. lab li upper
upper:
           1 STATA
           2 IS
           3 THE
           4 NAME

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Friedrich
> Huebler
> Sent: 05 April 2006 23:51
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Change value labels to lowercase
> 
> 
> I want to change the value labels in my data from uppercase to
> lowercase. Assume I have data like this:
> 
> variable     value
> name         label
> -------------------
> var019
> var020       VAR020
> var021
> var022
> var023       VAR023
> var024       VAR024
> 
> Variable names are all lowercase. Value labels are the same as the
> variable names but are all uppercase. How can I loop through all
> variables, identify those that have a value label, and change that
> value lable to lowercase?
> 
> Friedrich Huebler
> 
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