Indicates whether to translate input to uppercase
| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, Systems Options window
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| Category: |
Input control: Data processing
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| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
INPUTCONTROL
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- CAPS
- specifies that SAS translate lowercase characters
to uppercase in these types of input:
- data following CARDS, CARDS4, DATALINES, DATALINES4,
and PARMCARDS statements
- text enclosed in single or double quotation marks
- values in VALUE and INVALUE statements in
the
FORMAT procedure
- titles, footnotes, variable labels, and data set
labels
- constant text in macro definitions
- values of macro variables
- parameter
values passed to macros.
Note: Data read from external files and SAS data sets
are not translated to uppercase. ![[cautionend]](../common/images/cautend.gif)
- NOCAPS
- specifies that lowercase characters that
occur in the types of input that are listed above are not translated to uppercase.
The CAPS system option and the
CAPS command both specify
whether input is converted to uppercase. The CAPS command, which is available
in windows that allow text editing, can act as a toggle. The CAPS command
converts all text that is entered fromn the keyboard to uppercase. If either
the CAPS system option or the CAPS command is in effect, all applicable input
is translated to uppercase.
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