$UPCASEw. Format

Converts character data to uppercase.

Category: Character
Alignment: Left

Syntax

$UPCASEw.

Arguments

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default The length of the output is the length of the input variable; if the input variable’s length is undefined, the default length is 8.
Range 1–32767

Details

Special characters, such as hyphens and other symbols, are not altered.

Example

Statements
Results
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select put('coxe-ryan',$upcase9.);
 COXE-RYAN
Last updated: February 23, 2017