topic Re: Extracting records with in particular string in SAS Programming

Extracting records with in particular string

rkumar23 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:33:02 GMT

Could somebody please give me some thoughts what do loop I should code to extract the data between String PROF so basically the output dataset should have records which are between "PROF" string as many time as it appear until it reach End of file..

TESTING DATA WHICH IS NOT VALID
TESTING DATA WHICH IS NOT VALID

TESING DATA PROF
YES THIS IS A RECORD
YES THIS IS ANOTHER RECORD
DXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

TESTING DATA PROF
YES THIS IS A RECORD
YES THIS IS ANOTHER RECORD
DXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

TESTING DATA WHICH IS NOT VALID
TESTING DATA WHICH IS NOT VALID

Re: Extracting records with in particular string [how to improve your question]

Community_Guide — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:52:47 GMT

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Re: Extracting records with in particular string

ballardw — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:28:44 GMT

Show what you output should look like.

It really helps to provide an example of actual data in the form of a data step. Instructions here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-create-a-data-step-version-of-your-data-AKA-generate/ta-p/258712 will show how to turn an existing SAS data set into data step code that can be pasted into a forum code box using the {i} icon or attached as text to show exactly what you have and that we can test code against.