topic Why does IML give me CAPITAL letters? in SAS/IML Software and Matrix Computations

Why does IML give me CAPITAL letters?

PaigeMiller — Thu, 07 May 2015 13:31:20 GMT

This code

ods listing;

proc iml;

names = {Jenny, Linda, Jim, Samuel};

print names;

quit;

ods listing close;

produces output with capital letters, why?

The SAS System

names

JENNY
LINDA
JIM
SAMUEL

Rick_SAS — Thu, 07 May 2015 13:36:55 GMT

When you specify a matrix of character values, use quotes if you want to preserve case. Otherwise the values are UPCASEed. So to preserve case, use

names = {"Jenny", "Linda", "Jim", "Samuel"};

If you read data from a data set, you'll automatically get whatever case is in the data:

use sashelp.class;

read all var {"Name"};

close sashelp.class;

print Name;

PaigeMiller — Thu, 07 May 2015 13:39:06 GMT

Well, thanks, I doubt I would have found that in the help files.