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| From | Rajaram Subramanian Potty <rajara999@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Re: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables? |
| Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:19:31 +0530 |
Hi, This is the command for changing the vairables from capital to lower case. renvars nameofvariables, lower Thnaks On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:00 PM, nshephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote: > > Josef Montag wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> a sily/simple question: I have a dataset in which all variable names are >> in CAPITAL letters. Is there a simple way how to de-capitalise them? >> > > > Out of curiosity where is your dataset coming from? > > If you're -insheet-ing it from ASCII text files then the default behaviour > is to lowercase all variable names unless the -, case- option is used which > will preserve the case of variable names. > > This in turn suggests another solution (although it has the drawback that > you will loose all variable labelling and value encoding/labelling). > > outsheet using tmp.txt > insheet using tmp.txt > > Neil > -- > View this message in context: http://statalist.1588530.n2.nabble.com/how-to-DE-CAPITALISE-variables-tp5231402p5237445.html > Sent from the Statalist mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/