topic Re: count spaces between words in SAS Programming

count spaces between words

R_Win — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:27:00 GMT

How can i count the spaces in between the words data sp; input word $ 1-100; cards; as,bn hj nm lpo a b acf b c d asdf 29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ, run; output spacecount as,bn hj nm lpo 4 a b 1 acf b c d 3 asdf 0 29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ, 2

Re: count spaces between words

R_Win — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:28:12 GMT

Re: count spaces between words

Ksharp — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:56:39 GMT

data sp;
input word  $40.;
spacecount=countc(strip(word),' ');
cards;
as,bn hj nm lpo
a b
acf b c d
asdf
29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ,
;
run;

Ksharp

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Re: count spaces between words

R_Win — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:30:57 GMT

How can i count the spaces in between the words data sp; input word $ 1-100; cards; as,bn hj nm lpo a b acf b c d a,b,c,d,e asdf 29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ, a b,c d e 29/12,29/12,29/12, run; Actually i want is in the data if we are having 5 words separated by space or comma it should give one flag as 1 word flag as,bn hj nm lpo 1 a b 0 acf b c d 1 a,b,c,d,e 1 asdf 0 29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ, 0 a b,c d e 1 29/12,29/12,29/12, 0

Re: count spaces between words

Ksharp — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:03 GMT

data sp;
input word  $40.;
if countw(word,', ')=5 then flag=1; else flag=0;
cards;
as,bn hj nm lpo
a b
acf b c d
a,b,c,d,e
asdf
29/12, SOUTH TUKOGANJ,
a b,c d e
29/12,29/12,29/12,
;
run;

Ksharp