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I'm very new to SAS
Please excuse my ignorance with some of my questions.
I have a social security column which is manually entered by some outside users.
Is there a way for me to check this column based on this format: XXX-XX-XXXX
I want to find the columns that don't match this format if possible.

Thank You
Jerry
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Lapis Lazuli | Level 10 sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
One technique in a SAS DATA step is to use TRANSLATE such as:

DATA _NULL_;
SSN = '222-22-2222';
IF TRANSLATE(SSN,'%%%%%%%%%%','0123456789') NE '%%%-%%-%%%%' THEN PUTLOG '>ERROR> INVALID VARIABLE: ' SSN= ;
RUN;

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
deleted_user
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Scott,
Thank you again for your help. That is what I was looking for. All I have to is change it around a bit for populate the column with null if the format doesn't match.

Thank You
Jerry
deleted_user
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Regular expressions would do this too.

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