topic Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas in SAS Enterprise Guide

Right function in excel how to convert to sas

chennupriya — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:31:52 GMT

HHi ,

i have a coloumn product

whuch has vslues

1 YEAR TERM

10 YEAR TERM

15 YEAR TERM

UNKNOWN

hiw to extract the last letter M in 1,10,15 YEAR TERM and how to extract N from unknown

can anyone help

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

art297 — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:54:29 GMT

There might be a more direct route, but the following will work:

data have;

informat product $12.;

input product &;

newfield=substr(reverse(strip(product)),1,1);

cards;

1 YEAR TERM

10 YEAR TERM

15 YEAR TERM

UNKNOWN

;

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

Patrick — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:01:52 GMT

Or this way:

data have;

informat product $12.;

input product &;

newfield=substrn(product,lengthn(product),1);

cards;

1 YEAR TERM

10 YEAR TERM

15 YEAR TERM

UNKNOWN

;

run;

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

ssftik — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:01:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm sure there's multiple ways to achieve this. Here is one you can try.

substr( product , length( product) , 1)

For documentation of the used functions please see,

SUBSTR() - SAS(R) 9.4 Functions and CALL Routines: Reference, Third Edition

LENGTH() - SAS(R) 9.4 Functions and CALL Routines: Reference, Third Edition

Timo

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

slchen — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:21:24 GMT

data have;

informat product $20.;

input product &;

newfield=prxchange('s/.*(\w)/$1/',-1,product);

cards;

1 YEAR TERM

10 YEAR TERM

15 YEAR TERM

UNKNOWN

;

run;

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

chennupriya — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:53:07 GMT

hi ,

thank you so much it worked

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

Astounding — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:58:44 GMT

If you examine your results using PROC CONTENTS, you will see that the length of your new variable is not necessarily what you would expect. If you want it to be defined as 1 character long, add a LENGTH statement first:

length newfield $ 1;

Having done that, there are other possibilities for extraction such as:

newfield = left(reverse(product));

Good luck.

Re: Right function in excel how to convert to sas

data_null__ — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:06:16 GMT

Another option to get the length right would use the CHAR function.

lastchar = char(product,length(product));
  