Nick, sorry I was not precise. I wanted indeed to change the name of
each set of value labels from uppercase to lowercase. I also
neglected to mention that I use Stata/SE 8.2. Your commands work with
one change.
local l : lower("`u'")
has to be
local l = lower("`u'")
Thank you,
Friedrich
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although you don't quite say so, it seems you want to
> change the _name_ of each set of value labels and
> not the labels themselves.
>
> Well, I think that is this:
>
> ds, has(vall)
> local V "`r(varlist)'"
>
> foreach v of local V {
> local u : value label `v'
> local l : lower("`u'")
> capture labvalclone `u' `l'
> if _rc == 0 {
> label val `v' `l'
> label drop `u'
> }
> }
>
> but that's not tested.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Friedrich Huebler
>
> > > I want to change the value labels in my data from uppercase to
> > > lowercase. Assume I have data like this:
> > >
> > > variable value
> > > name label
> > > -------------------
> > > var019
> > > var020 VAR020
> > > var021
> > > var022
> > > var023 VAR023
> > > var024 VAR024
> > >
> > > Variable names are all lowercase. Value labels are the same as
> > > the variable names but are all uppercase. How can I loop
> > > through all variables, identify those that have a value label,
> > > and change that value lable to lowercase?
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