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


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: Writing a loop to change a letter in a string variable
Date   Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:21:56 +0200

<> 


No loop required at all, try -lower()- and -subinstr()- functions, as
described in -help string_functions-.



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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