I don't why the internet is being dragged in here. 
Within Stata, typing 
. search lowercase
points to the function concerned. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
MA V
 
> You're absolutely right. Sorry about that. But my previous 
> search hadn't 
> help me find the command I needed. Also, the fact that I was 
> having problems 
> with my internet connection didn't help.
> Sorry about that.
> For those who are interested, the command is
> "strlower(s) returns s, converted to lowercase"
Michael Blasnik
> >Why don't you check the help or manual?  It's very easy to 
> find this out on 
> >your own.
MA V
> >>Is there a way of converting uppercase to lowercase 
> strings? I have a 
> >>variable in which all the entries are  uppercase, but I 
> would like to have 
> >>them in lowercase.
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