topic Zip code clean up in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186935#M35394 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />There are some zip codes which have alphabets in them as shown below.I need to display only 08854 as the correct record.regular expressions does this job, but I figure the syntax.</P><P></P><P>00NSW</P><P>W85LJ</P><P>08854</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:31:16 GMT SASPhile 2014-06-05T18:31:16Z Zip code clean up https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186935#M35394 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />There are some zip codes which have alphabets in them as shown below.I need to display only 08854 as the correct record.regular expressions does this job, but I figure the syntax.</P><P></P><P>00NSW</P><P>W85LJ</P><P>08854</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:31:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186935#M35394 SASPhile 2014-06-05T18:31:16Z Re: Zip code clean up https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186936#M35395 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>DATA HAVE;</P><P>INPUT ZIPCODE $;</P><P>IF ANYALPHA(ZIPCODE) THEN DELETE;</P><P>CARDS;</P><P>00NSW</P><P>W85LJ</P><P>08854</P><P>;</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Haikuo </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:38:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186936#M35395 Haikuo 2014-06-05T18:38:53Z Re: Zip code clean up https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186937#M35396 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are the data by any chance multinational and you are getting other system postal codes? If so you may want to modifiy Haikuo's suggestion to output the data to two different datasets.</P><P></P><P><BR /> </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:52:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186937#M35396 ballardw 2014-06-05T18:52:57Z Re: Zip code clean up https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186938#M35397 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can also use the sashelp.zipcode table to determine if any particular ZIP code is valid.&nbsp; That data are updated every few months, so you may need to download the current one from sas.com.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:17:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Zip-code-clean-up/m-p/186938#M35397 Doc_Duke 2014-06-05T19:17:13Z