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Common Character Functions For Creating Columns

The document outlines common character functions in SAS for manipulating character columns. Key functions include UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATS, and SUBSTR, each serving specific purposes such as changing letter case, concatenating strings, and extracting substrings. These functions are essential for data processing in SAS programming.

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Common Character Functions For Creating Columns

The document outlines common character functions in SAS for manipulating character columns. Key functions include UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATS, and SUBSTR, each serving specific purposes such as changing letter case, concatenating strings, and extracting substrings. These functions are essential for data processing in SAS programming.

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Common Character Functions for Creating Columns

SAS has many functions you can use to manipulate character columns. The arguments include one
or more character columns in your data. These are a few of the many character functions you can
use:

Character Function What it Does

UPCASE (char) Changes letters in a character string to uppercase or


LOWCASE(char) lowercase

PROPCASE (char, <delimiters>) Changes the first letter of each word to uppercase
and other letters to lowercase

CATS (char1, char2, ...) Concatenates character strings and removes leading
and trailing blanks from each argument

SUBSTR (char, position, <length>) Returns a substring from a character string

SAS® Programming 1: Essentials


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