topic Re: scan function example with modifiers in SAS Programming

scan function example with modifiers

BrahmanandaRao — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:05:38 GMT

HI Experts Good Morning

I did not find scan function examples with modifiers

like a ,b c, d ,e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

what is charlist in the scan syntax

Re: scan function example with modifiers

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:21:47 GMT

Check out Example 4 and 5 in the Scan Function Documentation

Also, a nice exercise is to simply take some example from the documentation, add a modifier and check the results.

Re: scan function example with modifiers

BrahmanandaRao — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:33:06 GMT

atleast give an example d and L Modifiers

i confused what is charlist option in scan function syntax

Re: scan function example with modifiers

andreas_lds — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 08:18:27 GMT

@BrahmanandaRao wrote:

ok

atleast give an example d and L Modifiers

i confused what is charlist option in scan function syntax

There is hardly any difference, except for the characters being added, between "D" (or "L") and "A", for example, so please explain what you don't understand.