How do I capitalize characters and replace characters in a variable name?

[sasnewbie5]

I have this line of code:

street=catx(' ',scan(line2,2),scan(line2,3));

I need to capitalize all of the characters in the variable and also abbreviate some words in the same variable. I tried using the "upcase" function but had no luck. Can anyone provide assistance in accomplishing this?

[PeterClemmensen]

What do you mean by abbreviate some words?

[sasnewbie5]

Change Road to Rd., Street to St., Avenue to Ave.

[PeterClemmensen]

And those are the only abbrevaitions?

[sasnewbie5]

Yes.

[PeterClemmensen]

You can use the TRANWRD Function in a do loop as suggested in the thread below

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Replacing-Multiple-words-in-a-field-using-TRANWR...