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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]> 
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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables? 
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Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:21 +0100 
-renvars- is from the SJ. -search renvars- for locations. 
Nick 
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Lachenbruch, Peter
renvars varlist,lower
seems easiest
Maarten buis
--- Josef Montag wrote
> I have a dataset in which all variable names are in CAPITAL letters.
> Is there a simple way how to de-capitalise them?
foreach var of varlist _all {
    local lower = lower(`var')
    rename `var' `lower'
}
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