topic Re: How to know c letter position in SAS Programming

How to know c letter position

thanikondharish — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 04:41:42 GMT

%let a=abcd,efgh@hijk ;

%let b=%index(&a,c) ;

I want to know postion of c letter but the above not working

Re: How to know c letter position

Reeza — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:22:51 GMT

Your example will not work because what the macro processor see's the following which is too many parameters since you have two comma's in there now.

%let a=abcd,efgh@hijk ;

%let b=%index(abcd,efgh@hijk,c) ;

@thanikondharish wrote:
%let a=abcd,efgh@hijk ;

%let b=%index(&a,c) ;

I want to know postion of c letter but the above not working

Re: How to know c letter position

thanikondharish — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:45:18 GMT

I understood what your told but how to know the c letter position
Thanks,
Harish

Re: How to know c letter position

Pmyosh — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:10:24 GMT

You can put inside the %BQUOTE function

%let a=%BQUOTE(abcd,efgh@hijk) ;

%let b=%index(&a,c) ;

%PUT &b. &a.;



OUTPUT:
76    %let a=%BQUOTE(abcd,efgh@hijk) ;
77    
78    %let b=%index(&a,c) ;
79    
80    %PUT &b. &a.;
3 abcd,efgh@hijk

Re: How to know c letter position

thanikondharish — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:34:18 GMT

Thanks, it's working