topic Re: Count the keywords of the string in ODS and Base Reporting

Count the keywords of the string

Abud — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:51:31 GMT

Hello everbody!

Can I count the keywords of the string ?

Example :

%let colors = blue green yellow; ( I'd like to know if there is a function to return the number 3);

tk's in advanced !!

att

Gustavo Abud.

Re: Count the keywords of the string

data_null__ — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:17:27 GMT

Yes there is a function for that.

My question is why do you want to know? Does it really matter? Can you do what you want with the list of words without knowing how many there are? I bet you can.

Re: Count the keywords of the string

Linlin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:45:34 GMT

example:

data have;

string=' blue green yellow';

n=countw(string);

proc print;run;

Re: Count the keywords of the string

MikeTurner — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:27:35 GMT

%let n=%sysfunc(countw(&colors));

%put &n;