Hi guys,
I am trying to check if a specific field contains only text characters.
I am using the following code to verify if the field country does not contain any numeric char:
verify(country,"ABCDEFGHIJKLM")>0
I wonder if there are better ways to achieve that objective.
Thanks for all your help in advance!
Cheers,
Tom
You could use the notalpha function http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002194058.htm
If it returns a non-zero value the field contains something other than alpha characters
You could use the notalpha function http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002194058.htm
If it returns a non-zero value the field contains something other than alpha characters
Add a few,
And of course compress() plus lengthn().
Regards,
Haikuo
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