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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
Date
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:23:56 -0700
renvars varlist,lower
seems easiest
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 Maarten buis
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:58 AM
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Subject: RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
--- Josef Montag wrote
> I have a dataset in which all variable names are in CAPITAL letters.
> Is there a simple way how to de-capitalise them?
foreach var of varlist _all {
local lower = lower(`var')
rename `var' `lower'
}
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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