We all know the importance of UPCASE function in handling the character case strings. But do you know that a format can let you do the same as the UPCASE function (upcasing the variables).
$UPCASEw. format works similar to the UPCASE Function. It also does one more thing which UPCASE function doesn’t. i.e: $UPCASEw. format let you apply length to the variable.
Remember that w specifies the width of the output field.
Example:
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data new;
data new;
*convert it to uppercase;
name="studysas blog";
format name $upcase.;
newname=put(name, $upcase32.);
*Put function let you apply $upcase format;
run;
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*The length of the new variable newname will be 32.
