topic Re: ANYALPHA & ANYDIGIT VALIDATION in SAS Data Science

ANYALPHA & ANYDIGIT VALIDATION

BernyOsuna — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:24:38 GMT

Hi Guys

So i have a dataset with a variable with ID´s. ID´s should consist of 2 ALPHA positions and 8 DIGITposition. If this requirement is not met i should write it in a separated dataset.

AB12345678

The first filter i wanna say its the length = 10.

Second one is that first 2 positions both should be ALPHA.

Third that every single position from the 3rd to the 10th should be DIGIT.

If any of this requirements is not met, immediatly without going any further should be sent to a dataset.

I´ve seen the following code.

data _null_;    
   string='Next = _n_ + 12E3;';  
   j=0;  
   do until(j=0);  
      j=anyalpha(string,j+1);  
      if j=0 then put +3 "That's all";  
      else do;          
         c=substr(string,j,1);  
         put +3 j= c=;  
      end; 
   end;
run;

But i wonder how could i integrate the ANYDIGIT part and the conditional for every position after has been validated wheater is an ALPHA or a DIGIT.

Re: ANYALPHA & ANYDIGIT VALIDATION

Reeza — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:29:53 GMT

Substr out the components and check them. Look at NOTALPHA/NOTDIGIT as well.

LENGTH() = 10

SUBSTR(string, 1, 2) - NOTALPHA

SUBSTR(string, 3, 😎 - NOTDIGIT

Re: ANYALPHA & ANYDIGIT VALIDATION

Ksharp — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 03:16:46 GMT

data have;
input x $20.;
cards;
AB12345678
A12345678
;
run;
data right error;
 set have;
 if prxmatch('/^[a-z]{2}\d{8}$/i',strip(x)) then output right;
  else output error;
 run;

Re: ANYALPHA & ANYDIGIT VALIDATION

BernyOsuna — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:08:24 GMT

Thanks a lot Ksharp I didn´t know about this PRXMATCH command it did work great!!