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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:*********************************************************;
data new;*convert it to uppercase;name=”studysas blog”; format name $upcase.;newname=put(name, $upcase32.);*Put function let you apply $upcase format;run;**********************************************;
*The length of the new variable newname will be 32.
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