I want to remove any repeated characters in a character string. I've gone through all the character functions in the doc and I can't find anything to do what I want. For example: change: YYYMMDD to: YMD Sounds simple, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around this one. Thanks...
How Data Step and PROC SQL Works Calculate Frequency Distribution with PROC FREQ Specify a list of variables Use of WildCard Character Missing Values in SAS Convert Character Variable to Date Convert Numeric Variable to Date SAS Formats SAS Date Formats and Informats Extract Date from DateTime Pro...
libname Clean'D:\SASShare\Data\github\Learning-Cody-Data-Cleaning-Techniques-Using-SAS';data Remove_Names;setClean.Addresses(keep=Street);Original=Street;Words="s/\sRoad\b|\sCourt\b|\sStreet\b";Abbreviations="|\sRd\.\s*$|\sCt\.\s*$|\sSt\.\s*$/ /";Regex=cats(Words,Abbreviations);...
In your INPUT() function call the `2.` is the INFORMAT to use to convert the string in the character variable into a new value. Since '2.' is a numeric informat the result will be a number. But note there is no need to limit the INPUT() function to reading just the 2 ...
43866 Using IBM encoding to configure SAS ® 9.3 BI servers in double-byte character set (DBCS) locales causes various issues in the SAS BI environment z/OS Base SAS Issue(s) Addressed: 61405 Queries fail with "ERROR: sqlplan internal error... " 64-bit Enabled AIX, 64-bit Enabl...
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These operators compare two strings after making the strings the same length by truncating the longer string to the same length as the shorter string. Example 2: proc sql; select * from testdata1 where charx eqt '0'; quit; The above program will generate the output: id x charx --- ...
SCAN extracts words within a value that is marked by delimiters. SUBSTR extracts a portion of the value by stating the specific location. It is best used when we know the exact position of the sub string to extract from a character value. 45. The following data step executes: ...
In this case truncation will occur on a character boundary and thus may occur in the middle of a word. When creating a normalized data set, field names are specified after the NORMALIZE key word. A separate name must be specified for each of the string fields that result from any string...
PROC SQL; SELECT WEIGHT, CASE WHEN WEIGHT BETWEEN 0 AND 50 THEN ’LOW’ WHEN WEIGHT BETWEEN 51 AND 70 THEN ’MEDIUM’ WHEN WEIGHT BETWEEN 71 AND 100 THEN ’HIGH’ ELSE ’VERY HIGH’ END AS NEWWEIGHT FROM HEALTH; QUIT; 49. How to remove duplicates using PROC SQL? Proc SQL noprint...