Note: If string is a constant enclosed by quotation marks, those quotation marks are not part of the value of string. Therefore, you do not need to use DEQUOTE to remove the quotation marks that denote a constant. 5、INDEX(sorce,excerpt ) Searches a ...
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: Find and Remove Multiple String Posted 09-07-2017 04:55 AM (9511 views) | In reply to pooiwan Something like: data want; set sasuser.name; do i="AS_OWNER","AS PRINCIPAL"...; ins_name=tranwrd(ins_name,i,""); end; run; You could also put your strings in a dataset ...
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...
Methods inherited from interface com.sas.metadata.remote.MdObjectBaseXML closeUpdateMetadataXML, createEmptyXML, createObjectRefreshXML, createObjectXML, createObjectXML, createUpdateAssociationXML, createUpdateAssociationXML, createUpdateSimpleXML, doCreateUpdateXML, getUpdateSimpleSubstring, updateMetadataAll...
closeUpdateMetadataXML, createEmptyXML, createObjectRefreshXML, createObjectXML, createObjectXML, createUpdateAssociationXML, createUpdateAssociationXML, createUpdateSimpleXML, doCreateUpdateXML, getUpdateSimpleSubstring, updateMetadataAllMethods inherited from interface com.sas.metadata.remote.MdObjectBaseUtil addMd...
and the length of the substring could possibly be determined in the execution stage (from data values, for example), SAS does the logical thing: it gives the variable defined by the SUBSTR function the longest length it possibly could—the length of the string from which ...
The SUBSTR function is used to extract substring from a character variable. The SUBSTR function has three arguments: SUBSTR ( character variable, starting point to begin reading the variable, number of characters to read from the starting point) There are two basic applications of the SUBSTR funct...
FINDW Function Returns the character position of a word in a string, or returns the number of the word in a string. Returns a character string with specified characters removed from the original string. Counts the number of times that a specified substring appears within a character string. ...
Ooooh, I did something like this a while ago to remove strings inside parentheses from the middle of a bigger string. You obviously don't need this as Dave's method worked for you, but for completeness (and I like showing off my code) here's my method. Code: if indexc(some_string...