RE: st: changing names from UPPER to lower case

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- "Lachenbruch, Peter" wrote:
> I have a number of variables in uppercase that I want to change
> to lower case.

You need to make sure that Stata only sees your new variable 
name and not the function that leads to it. In the example
below that is achieved by surrounding -upper("`var'")- with
`= and '

(This does ofcourse exactly the opposite of what you wanted
to do, but did not have an example dataset with variable names
in capitals... )

*------------- begin example -------------
sysuse auto, clear
foreach var of varlist _all {
	rename `var' `= upper("`var'")'
}
*------------- end example ---------------
( For more on how to use examples I sent to statalist see:
 http://www.maartenbuis.nl/stata/exampleFAQ.html )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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