Upper

Allows you to translate a value to uppercase. To specify this translation, code FORMAT=UPPER on the XLATL tag. This translation is always successful.

We'll add a translate list to the authorc variable class in the example under Numeric variables. The translate list converts the author's name to uppercase.

<varclass name=authorc type='CHAR 40' msg=liba001>
  <xlatl format=upper>
  </xlatl>

This figure shows the results on input and output translations for the previous example:

Figure 1. Variable translation results

On input, the user-entered value of "AuThor" trnalsates to the value "AUTHOR" stored in the pool. On output, the pool value "AuThOR" translates to the value "AUTHOR" displayed to the user.