topic Re: Subsetting data by minimum length of strings in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Subsetting-data-by-minimum-length-of-strings/m-p/201624#M50362 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try this:</P><P></P><P>where length(varname) &gt; 5;</P><P></P><P>Good luck.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:04:01 GMT Astounding 2015-07-13T21:04:01Z Subsetting data by minimum length of strings https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Subsetting-data-by-minimum-length-of-strings/m-p/201623#M50361 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If I have a table like this:</P><P></P><P>Name1</P><P>A</P><P>AB</P><P>ABC</P><P>ABCD</P><P>ABCDE</P><P>ABCDEF</P><P>ABCDEFG</P><P>ABCDEFGH</P><P></P><P></P><P>How can I write a command to just subset the observations that have 6 or more characters in the string? </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:43:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Subsetting-data-by-minimum-length-of-strings/m-p/201623#M50361 SASbeginner20 2015-07-13T20:43:03Z Re: Subsetting data by minimum length of strings https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Subsetting-data-by-minimum-length-of-strings/m-p/201624#M50362 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try this:</P><P></P><P>where length(varname) &gt; 5;</P><P></P><P>Good luck.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:04:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Subsetting-data-by-minimum-length-of-strings/m-p/201624#M50362 Astounding 2015-07-13T21:04:01Z