This can be simplified further:
foreach var of varlist _all {
local newname = lower("`var'")
capture rename `var' `newname'
}
James
On Feb 25, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Gary Longton wrote:
But I think you were also on the right track with what Nick Cox might
call a "first principles" approach, using -foreach- and the lower()
function. You just need to ensure that lower() is looking at the
string variable name as an argument, rather than at the variable
itself, by enclosing in double quotes. Eg.
foreach var of varlist _all {
local newname = lower("`var'")
if "`var'" ~= "`newname'" {
rename `var' `newname'
}
}
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