Re: st: Re: Delete upper case variable

[Janet Hill <janethill73@yahoo.co.uk>]

Eric, Kit and Nick.
 
Thank you all for your help.
 
Janet


----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
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Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2012, 22:41
Subject: Re: st: Re: Delete upper case variable

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I don't think -findname- has the ability to select on variable case (that I could find anyways ((I thought I remembered Nick Cox commenting about this in an earlier thread, but I couldnt find it - or I'm imagining it))) ).  

Here's a one way to do it:

*************!
sysuse auto, clear
rename mpg headroom, upper
**
foreach a in  `c(ALPHA)' {
cap ds `a'*
loc list `"`list' `r(varlist)' "'
}
di `"`list'"' //check this
drop `list' 
*************!

- Eric

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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute 
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
+979.845.6754


On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Janet Hill wrote:

> I am importing a large dataset and, following various data manipulations, I generate new variables that have lower case names. To clean the dataset I need to delete all variables that start with an upper case letter. I can see the names in ds or findname (from SSC) but I can't work out how to select these names for deletion. I would be grateful for any advice on this. I am using Stata 12.
> 
> Thank you,
> Janet
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