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| From | nshephard <nshephard@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables? |
| Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:30:22 -0700 (PDT) |
Josef Montag wrote: > > Hi all, > > a sily/simple question: I have a dataset in which all variable names are > in CAPITAL letters. Is there a simple way how to de-capitalise them? > Out of curiosity where is your dataset coming from? If you're -insheet-ing it from ASCII text files then the default behaviour is to lowercase all variable names unless the -, case- option is used which will preserve the case of variable names. This in turn suggests another solution (although it has the drawback that you will loose all variable labelling and value encoding/labelling). outsheet using tmp.txt insheet using tmp.txt Neil -- View this message in context: http://statalist.1588530.n2.nabble.com/how-to-DE-CAPITALISE-variables-tp5231402p5237445.html Sent from the Statalist mailing list archive at Nabble.com. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/