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Re: st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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Rajaram Subramanian Potty <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
Date
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:19:31 +0530
Hi,
This is the command for changing the vairables from capital to lower case.
renvars nameofvariables, lower
Thnaks
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:00 PM, nshephard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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