topic Re: Extracting strings from text in SAS Programming

Extracting strings from text

Milindbhorge — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:22:36 GMT

Raw data(Twitter Comment):

@nice#greatwork@fake

very nice portal ncs

#Goodportal@hatsoff to ncs

Output needed:

Col1

@nice

#greatwork

@fake

null

#Goodportal

@hatsoff

want to extract only those words which contains special character in single coloum .

which ever comment does not contain special character then show null.

Re: Extracting strings from text

Reeza — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:21:44 GMT

Is this a homework assignment somewhere?

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/How-to-read-specific-information-from-Tweet-data/m-p/289879

Re: Extracting strings from text

RahulG — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:36:51 GMT

Good catch ...same question asked twice by different person

Re: Extracting strings from text

Milindbhorge — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:42:11 GMT

yea that true one of my frd(atul) only asked tht que ....

but ans were nt appropriate .

Re: Extracting strings from text

RW9 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:08:55 GMT

Perhaps it would be a good I dea to close of the other thread - mark one of the responses as the solution, then in this post update it to reflect what the input data is, and also explain why the given solutions are "nt appropriate". Please use full examples of what you want.