extracting the words

Sowmya12 — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:47:11 GMT

2- sodium chloride and lactate un un 2023
1-calcium lactate 12 un 2022
3-sodium bicarbonate un 03 1998

The output should be

sodium chloride and lactate
calcium lactate
sodium bicarbonate

Re: extracting the words

A_Kh — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:39:16 GMT

data want;
	set have;
	new_var= substr(scan(var, 2, '-'), 1, length(scan(var, 2, '-'))-11);
proc print;run;