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renjithr
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

 

I have a dataset where I have names in upper case and mixed case. I only want to retain observations with upper case names.

 

ID Name

1  John Doe1

2 JOHN DOE

3 JOHN DOE1

4 John Doe2

 

Desired output:

 

ID Name

2 JOHN DOE

3 JOHN DOE1

 

Please help.

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Reeza
Super User

UPCASE() function

 

if name ne upcase(name) then delete;

 

ANYLOWER() function

 

if anylower(name) > 0 then delete;

 

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Reeza
Super User

UPCASE() function

 

if name ne upcase(name) then delete;

 

ANYLOWER() function

 

if anylower(name) > 0 then delete;

 

PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Please mark @Reeza's answer as Accepted.

PG

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