Or one if you have installed -renvars- from STB-60.
. renvars, lower
Nick
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David Harrison
> The default behaviour of StatTransfer (in v7 at least) is to
> change all variable names to lower case - if you are getting
> upper case variable names then you probably have "Preserve
> name and label case if possible" checked in the StatTransfer
> options (I don't know that there is a command line switch for this).
>
> Alternatively the variable names can be converted to lower
> case by 3 lines of Stata code (provided the lower case names
> would be unique)...
>
> foreach v of varlist _all {
> ren `v' `=lower("`v'")'
> }
Ann E Fitzmaurice
> I am using stat transfer to transfer spss files into stata
> .dta and the
> variable names all come over in capitals, is there a way to create the
> stata file with the variable names in lower case
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