https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414424#M280030 Please show example, using a starting SAS data set, and the desired result. Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:35:44 GMT mkeintz 2017-11-17T15:35:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414420#M280029 <P>I am doing literal searches for several variables for specific terms.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>One of these variables contains a description of up to 100 terms. So I am doing a search on this variable for a specific term: One of these terms is "OD". But I do not want to count them if the terms are "probable OD" or "suspected OD".</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I am using these 2 functions: findw and index, are these any other better functions to use?</P> <P>thanks!</P> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:30:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414420#M280029 malena 2017-11-17T15:30:51Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414424#M280030 Please show example, using a starting SAS data set, and the desired result. Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:35:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414424#M280030 mkeintz 2017-11-17T15:35:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414426#M280031 <P>PRXMATCH, which is regular expressions. They're incredibly powerful for searching text strings.&nbsp;</P> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:39:34 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-literals/m-p/414426#M280031 Reeza 2017-11-17T15:39:34Z