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BarryP
Quartz | Level 8

I have a list of maybe a couple thousand customers.  Some of them contain upside down question marks in their name.  How would I identify these accounts?

data test;
   set test;
   if find(name,'Upside Down Question Mark') ge 1;
run;

 I assume I would use that, but I have no idea how to put an upside down question mark in the quotes. 

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ballardw
Super User

If you open a SAS data set and copy the character from one of the variables try pasting that into the code.

 

No guarantee but I have had this work a few times for some encodings and has the advantage of being relatively easy if it works.

 

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20
data want;
char="fsdfdgbv¿42553";
position=find(char,"¿");
run;

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