Re: st: RE: inputst and variable name case

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

I would agree that Nick Cox's suggestion to use -renvars- is probably 
the best solution to Scott's problem. However, in the more general case 
of customizing things at the Stat/Transfer level, the user also has the 
option of writing a Stat/Transfer .stcmd command file. Such a command 
file can then be called from Stata using -stcmd-. As in:

stcmd mystcom.stcmd

You can consult the .pdf documentation for Stat/Transfer to find more 
about -.stcmd- files, if you want to get deeper into the technical side 
of Stat/Transfer.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 18/11/2010 17:22, Nick Cox wrote:
> -inputst- is from Roger Newson's package -stcmd-, available in various places.
>
> You can modify any of those programs if you like, but that modified program then becomes your responsibility. But I think it's much easier to do this in other ways. For example, with -renvars- from the Stata Journal,
>
> . renvars, lower
>
> is all you need. Type -findit renvars- and download from the SJ 5-4 files.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Scott N. Bronson
>
> I am importing a SAS 9.2 dataset into Stata using the inputst command.  While I can import the data fine using inputst, the SAS variable names are a mixture of upper case and lower case, and I would like to have them to all be lower case in Stata.  I know which StatTransfer Command Processor commands that I want to use, but I am having difficulty understanding how (and whether) I can modify the inputst and/or stcmd .ado files to force all imported variable names to be lower case.  Any help would be much appreciated!
>
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