topic How do I identify an upside down question mark? in SAS Programming

How do I identify an upside down question mark?

BarryP — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:53:22 GMT

I have a list of maybe a couple thousand customers. Some of them contain upside down question marks in their name. How would I identify these accounts?

data test;
   set test;
   if find(name,'Upside Down Question Mark') ge 1;
run;

I assume I would use that, but I have no idea how to put an upside down question mark in the quotes.

Re: How do I identify an upside down question mark?

ballardw — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:59:51 GMT

If you open a SAS data set and copy the character from one of the variables try pasting that into the code.

No guarantee but I have had this work a few times for some encodings and has the advantage of being relatively easy if it works.

Re: How do I identify an upside down question mark?

novinosrin — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:03:36 GMT

data want;
char="fsdfdgbv¿42553";
position=find(char,"¿");
run;