st: changing names from UPPER to lower case

["Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu>]

Dear all,
I have a number of variables in uppercase that I want to change to lower case.  I can do it individually, of course, but when I try to do it in a foreach loop  I get

. foreach v of varlist ILD-CUTIC_OG{
  2. rename `v' lower(`v')
  3. }
 ( not allowed
 r(101);

. foreach v of varlist ILD-CUTIC_OG{
  2. rename `v' lower("`v'")
  3. }
 ( not allowed
 r(101);

Apparently rename doesn't allow this function.
I went ahead with the individual changes, but is there a simple way that I'm
missing?  I've looked at the manual entries for the lower function, the rename command, etc.

Tony

Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-737-3832
FAX: 541-737-4001



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