| Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:58:04 +0000 |
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| Reply-To: | John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: selecting observations by upper and lower case |
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| In-Reply-To: | <E18b9hJ-0000KQ-00@coumxnn02.netbenefit.co.uk> |
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At 16:27 21/01/03 -0800, Joseph Schuchter wrote (in small part):
>I want to create a new variable called validate which basically says:
>if value is in upper case then validate=1;
>else validate=0;
Joe, something as simple as the following may be enough:
if upcase(var) = var then validate=1 ;
else validate = 0 ;
This should give validate=1 for any value in which all the alpha characters
are upper case, and validate=0 if any alpha character is in lower case.
Any help?
Kind Regards
John
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