Within the do-loop, we assigned each word from the variable "text" to the corresponding element of the array "word" using the scan function with a comma (",") as the delimiter. In simple words, we created a new variable for each word in the variable "text". Later we removed the va...
Re: scan function with only spaces as delimiter Posted 06-21-2016 06:52 AM (12412 views) | In reply to mathias If you use countw() to determine the number of "words" in your string, you must supply the same list of delimiters that you use in the scan() function, or it will...
'%S is a row vector with the sum over each column. For N-D arrays,'... '%SUM(X) operates along the first non-singleton dimension.'... } etc. WHY I want to do it: I want to be able to store my function (I'm just using sum.m as an example) with the variables created fro...
Multicharacter string in Scan function Posted 10-23-2017 04:52 AM (5671 views) hi Im trying to parse my string into 3 parts, and the delimiter is "//". Example of my string: ItemA=Andy//Male//Cat. However, I have some strings that have "/" as part of the string, and I'm...
So I am trying to delimit(/) an address variable using Scan function. But I only need to use the last delimiter and not the initial delimiters which are string.For Eg: West of arrell street 1/2/SAN PEDRO CA 90731.I want 'SAN PEDRO CA 9073' in a different column while 'West of ...
I thought about using SUBSTR except the records are of different length, and so I cannot set an arbitrary element start-stop location, but must use "," delimiter. Regards, Soules92190 Likes 1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION ballardw Super User Re: SAS Data Integration Filter with SCAN Function Posted ...
I thought about using SUBSTR except the records are of different length, and so I cannot set an arbitrary element start-stop location, but must use "," delimiter. Regards, Soules92190 Likes 1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION ballardw Super User Re: SAS Data Integration Filter with SCAN Function Posted ...
Re: Scan Function Posted 04-24-2013 11:15 AM (1975 views) | In reply to sam369 you need a %to in your do loop. There's many ways to do this, but if you know you always need the ficc why not scan with that as the delimiter instead and always add it in? %let varlist=fi...
Hi SAS users, Need help to clear the SCAN error. 'all_exclusions' macro variable has 30 variables with comma delimiter inbetween and 'temp_exclusions' has 30 variables. %Do i = 1 %to &count; %LET exclusion1 = %scan(&all_exclusions,&i, ','); %LET exclusion2 = %scan(...
Re: Which function is the best to locate that data: scan, index, or indexc? Posted 01-17-2019 05:42 AM (3849 views) | In reply to sandeep12 Index function –Searches a character expression for a string of characters SAS Statements Results a=’ABC.DEF (X=Y)’;...