topic Re: contain(1) in SAS Programming

contain(1)

cons — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:24:15 GMT

I read variable=contain(1)......

IS it posibble to write theassignement above?

Re: contain(1)

RW9 — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:34:00 GMT

Hi,

Could you be a little bit more verbose in the description of the problem, perhaps posting example test data (form of a datastep) and what the output should look like. I am going to guess that 1 is a character, and you want to search in a string of characters to see if that character exists and if so assign a boolean response to variable 1 being found, 0 not being found:

data have;
 input a $;
 b=ifn(findc(a,"1") > 0,1,0);
datalines;
045674
341232
run;

Re: contain(1)

Astounding — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:51:56 GMT

If you read this as part of a SAS program, it means a DATA step contains an array named CONTAIN. That statement would assign (as the value of VARIABLE) the first element in the array.