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st: RE: RE: RE: changing names from UPPER to lower case


From   "Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: RE: changing names from UPPER to lower case
Date   Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:07:32 -0700

I spoke too fast.  Thanks are due to Kit and several kind people who directed me to renvars.

Tony

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


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lachenbruch, Peter
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:04 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: st: RE: RE: changing names from UPPER to lower case 

Works like a charm. Thanks Nick and Martin.

Tony

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


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: changing names from UPPER to lower case 


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Use NJC`s 

*************
ssc d tolower
*************


HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lachenbruch,
Peter
Sent: Freitag, 19. März 2010 17:20
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: st: changing names from UPPER to lower case 

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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