Lowercase string.
Syntax: @lower(str)
str: string
Return: string
Returns the lowercase representation of the string str.
Examples
If we define the string object
string s1 = "I did NOT do it"
the commands
@lower("I did NOT do it")
@lower(s1)
return the string “i did not do it”.
If ALPHA1 is an alpha series,
alpha alphalwr = @lower(alpha1)
returns the lowercase of the strings in ALPHA1 for each observation in the workfile sample.
If SVEC1 is an string vector,
svector sveclen = @lower(svec1)
returns a string vector containing the lowercased elements of SVEC1.
Cross-references