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RE: st: changing values to either all caps or all lowercase
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Kathleen Oberst <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: changing values to either all caps or all lowercase
Date
Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:50:59 +0000
Ah, the light bulb has turned on! I now understand you were suggesting to look for the topic "functions" from the help screen (clearly more coffee is needed). Nick, Daniel and William - thank you for your patience and suggestions.
K
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: changing values to either all caps or all lowercase
I gave you an example that you can try.
As others have emphasised,
1. changing the names of the variables
and
2. changing the values they contain
are completely different problems.
-renvars- (SJ) was for a decade the most versatile tool for renaming variables, but in Stata 12 -rename- is much revised and the first port of call.
But as said your problem is #1 not #2.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kathleen Oberst <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was not successful identifying a command that affected the values, I did find the command "renvars, upper" or "renvars, lower" for modifying the variable names. From your example, I'm interpreting that to mean that I have to create duplicates of all my variables in order to accomplish the same type of editing for the values, is my understanding correct?
Nick Cox
> -lower()- and -upper()- are functions, not commands. Dopey example:
>
> sysuse auto
> gen lmake = lower(make)
> gen umake = upper(make)
> edit *make
>
> Start with -help functions-.
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Kathleen Oberst <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a variable (ex. City name) and I'm trying to clean it up. I have the same city entered in as all lowercase, first letter capitalized or all upper case. Is there a way to force them all into upper or lower case? I've tried the "lower" command but it was not recognized. I'm using version 11.
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