topic sas perl regular expression in SAS Procedures

sas perl regular expression

siliconcreature — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:25:43 GMT

in perl, i can do this,
$a = "abcd1234";
print $1 if $a=~/abcd(\d+)/;

if the string is abcd1234, i try to get the number followed by abcd, the perl can automatically assign a variable that matched in the parenthsis, can SAS PRX function do this? Message was edited by: siliconcreature

Re: sas perl regular expression

data_null__ — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:43:26 GMT

RTM!

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PRXPOSN Function
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Returns a character string that contains the value for a capture buffer.
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Re: sas perl regular expression

siliconcreature — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:13:34 GMT

that will return abcd1234, assumed

Re: sas perl regular expression

siliconcreature — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:57:08 GMT

sorry, you are right, i missread that section. thank you.