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st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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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
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