topic Re: Like in SAS Programming

Like

msharma1788 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:21:29 GMT

Hi Team,

I have a dataset ABC

Var 1 Var2 Var3

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I need to set an Indicator Y if any if the variable 1, 2 or 3 contains LIKE'%Local%' .

IF Var1 or Var2 or var3 LIKE'%Local%' . THEN Var4 = 'Y';

Please help as how we can do this, as LIKE works with were , what other option we have to do this and get expected result.

Thanks!

Re: Like

Ksharp — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:33:10 GMT

Array.

data a;
input (Var1-Var3) (& $40.);
cards;
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;
data want; 
 set a;
 array x{*} $ var: ;
 do i=1 to dim(x);
  if find(x{i},'Local') then do; flag='Y';leave;end;
 end;
 drop i;
run;

Re: Like

Tom — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:50:17 GMT

You cannot use LIKE with IF. That only works with WHERE statements.

But since all you are doing is looking for a substring you can just use one of the many functions that do that. INDEX(), FIND(), INDEXW(), FINDW().

Since you don't care which variable you find it you can just combine all of them and search that.

IF index(cats(of var1-var3),'Local') THEN Var4 = 'Y';