topic scan function -need help in SAS Programming

scan function -need help

vraj1 — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:14:04 GMT

I have a variable which has values like "haga-89ndff-pssj" i need to extract the values which is between - for ex in this case 89ndff.

Can anyone help me how to do it in scan.

Reeza — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:27:02 GMT

What's the issue with SCAN()?

Does the number of component vary?

field=scan(string, 2);