st: AW: Writing a loop to change a letter in a string variable

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Stata applies the string function to all observations automatically, so a
loop is not rquired at all here:


*************
clear*
inp str10 name
JimÉnez
end

l

replace name=lower(subinstr(name, "É", "E",.))
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HTH
Martin


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Hi;

   I am trying to edit my data, which happens to include a lot of Spanish
accents. For example, I have a variable named "apellido" with string data
like "JimÉnez" and I want to find an efficient way to change that to
"Jimenez". Can anyone suggest a loop that would make such a change over the
whole variable? Also, how can one change from capital letters to lower case,
i.e. "Jimenez" to "jimenez". Thank you.
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