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Saravanan
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

Is there any SAS function which converts state name to two character US postal code?

For example, North Carolina should give 37

i do not have abbreviated state name to use stfips function.

Thanks,

SK

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ballardw
Super User

37 is FIPS not POSTAL Code. Postal would be NC.

The dataset SASHELP.Zipcode has full name 2 letter postal code and 2 digit FIPS codes, so you could build a look up data set and either create an informat or use merge or SQL to join to your data.

proc sql;

     create table statecodes as

     select distinct statename, statecode, state

     from sashelp.zipcode;

quit;

Saravanan
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you very much for the clarification. It works.

very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Saravanan

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