Note that -renvars- (STB-60) is more or
less the same answer:
-renvars- is based on a -forvalues- loop, but
it is just out of sight of the user.
Nick
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David Harrison
> Yes, e.g.
>
> foreach v of varlist A B C {
> ren `v' `=lower("`v'")'
> }
>
> But for flexible manipulation of variable names (including
> changing case), look at the -renvars- package:
>
> findit renvars
Paolo Grillo, MD
> I would like to rename a lot of varname from UPPER to lower case
> maintaining the same variable name.
> Is it possible to use foreach?.
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