topic anyalpha function in SAS Programming

anyalpha function

myboys2 — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:13:04 GMT

i am trying to pull out the alpha in a field. So if the field has an alpha then make that field a 0 if it does not have an alpha in it then keep it

12345678A

45893317Q

23849451H

999999999

888888888

Re: anyalpha function

Patrick — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:28:23 GMT

Something like below?

data sample;
  input var :$10.;
  var_recoded=var;
  if anyalpha(var) then var_recoded='0';
  datalines;
12345678A
45893317Q
23849451H
999999999
888888888
;
run;