string:specifies a character constant, variable, or expression in which substrings are to be counted. substring:is a character constant, variable, or expression that specifies the substring of characters to coun
COMPRESS Function Returns a character string with specified characters removed from the original string. COUNT Function Counts the number of times that a specified substring appears within a character string. COUNTC Function Counts the number of characters in a string that appear or do not appear in...
Re: Counting groups of consecutive characters in string Posted 07-30-2020 01:54 PM (2968 views) | In reply to mh04 data string; informat string1 string2 string3 $100.; infile cards dlm=','; input string1 $ x $; count=0; max_len=0; drop i string2 string3 len x; if...
where sql-expression is a character column, string (character constant), or expression(contain某些东西的列是字符型) procsql outobs=10;selectnamefromsasuser.frequentflyerswherenamecontains'ER'; quit; 3.3:IN Operatorto Select Values from a List column IN (constant-1 <, . . . constant-n>) co...
If you have used repetitive INDEX and SUBSTR functions to determine how many times a “word” occurs in a character string, that task can also be accomplished more easily in Version 9. The COUNT function determines the number of times argument 2 occurs in argument 1. ...
Function COLLATE Function COMPARE Function COMPBL Function COMPGED Function COMPLEV Function COMPRESS Function COUNT Function COUNTC Function COUNTW Function DEQUOTE Function Removes matching quotation marks from a character string that begins with a quotation mark, and deletes all characters to the right...
The following code calculates the positions of the first lowercase and uppercase characters in the "company" variable using theANYLOWERandANYUPPERfunctions. The results are stored in the "lower_position" and "upper_position" variables. data example; ...
SAS 9.2 On-Line: Informats, Formats, Functions, Functions by Category, ListsANYALPHA() Returns first position of alphabetic character value. Note that special characters such as '< >' are not considered alphabetic characters and not identified with the ANYALPHA() function. May need to also ...
FunctionsThatRemoveCharactersfromStrings11 COMPBL11 COMPRESS13 FunctionsThatSearchforCharacters16 ANYALNUM17NOTUPPER27 ANYALPHA18FIND29 ANYDIGIT19FINDC31 ANYPUNCT20INDEX34 ANYSPACE21INDEXC36 NOTALNUM24INDEXW39 NOTALPHA25VERIFY41 NOTDIGIT26 FunctionsThatExtractPartsofStrings43 ...
converts the character stringto an integer. The string should consist of an optional plus or minus sign, followed by one or more decimal digits. Initial white-space characters are ignored. RETURN VALUE atoireturns the integer value represented by the character string up to the first unrecognized...