topic capitalize first letter of first word in SAS Programming

capitalize first letter of first word

gzr2mz39 — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:14:27 GMT

I would like to capitalize the first letter of the first word of a string. For example, "abc def" would be "Abc def" and "xyz mno rptd" would be "Xyz mno rptd".

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Re: capitalize first letter of first word

Haikuo — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:29:43 GMT

There is function propcase(), but it will upcase first char of very word in your string. So you may want to try following approach:

data _null_;

a="abc def";

substr(a,1,1)=upcase(first(a));

put a=;

run;

Haikuo

Re: capitalize first letter of first word

art297 — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:29:50 GMT

: Couldn't you just use the substr function? e.g.:

data have;

informat text $30.;

input text &;

cards;

abc def

xyz mno rptd

;

data want;

set have;

substr(text,1,1)=upcase(substr(text,1,1));

run;