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daszlosek
Quartz | Level 8

Hello all,

 

I am trying to pull a string out from a free text. I was able to use the substring and find function to pull out the specific area around the string. but there are periods marking the end of a sentence that I would like to remove. Not all rows have a period at the end (my assumption would be I could use compress, but then any decimals would be removed as well. 

 

For example:

11.5

12

10.

10.2.

 

And I would like:

11.5

12

10

10.2

 

I was thinking maybe I could use the find function to find the second period and then delete? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. 

 

EDIT: My apologies, I forgot to remove the string

 

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kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Another way

data abc;
input a $;
b=prxchange('s/^(.+?)(\.)*$/$1/', -1,trim(a));
datalines;
10.2
10.2.
10
10.3...
run;

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Reeza
Super User

There's no difference in your Have/Want

kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

your example and what you want are same. so you want dot removed at the end of string?

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

I agree with the other posters, your test data is wrong.  One solution:

data want;
  set have;
  if char(thestring,lengthn(thestring)-1)="." then thestring=substr(thestring,1,lengthn(thestring)-1);
run;

As you haven't provided test data in the form of a datastep I have made up a variable thestring.

kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Another way

data abc;
input a $;
b=prxchange('s/^(.+?)(\.)*$/$1/', -1,trim(a));
datalines;
10.2
10.2.
10
10.3...
run;
Ksharp
Super User
data abc;
input a $;
b=prxchange('s/\.+$//', -1,trim(a));
datalines;
10.2
10.2.
10
10.3...
run;

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