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ybz12003
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Hello:

 

I would like to remove some charaters from different postions in the string.  Please advice.

 

The data are list below:

lab_den_pcr_perf_1

mhh_cyto_tests_1__cfdna

nad_cert_30

nad_imag_find___abn_cort_gyr

 

And I would like to change them to:

lab_den_pcr_perf

mhh_cyto_tests__cfdna

nad_cert

nad_imag_find

 

 

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16
/*In the below case i am suppressing only the digits whereever they are located in the string*/




data have; input text$100.; cards; lab_den_pcr_perf_1 mhh_cyto_tests_1__cfdna nad_cert_30 nad_imag_find___abn_cort_gyr ; data want; set have; new=prxchange('s/\d+//',-1,text); run;
Thanks,
Jag

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Reeza
Super User

What are the rules? 

 

kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

As per suggestion of @Reeza , please provide some information, so that someone call help you. I find regular expressions very helpful for this kind of scenarios

Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16
/*In the below case i am suppressing only the digits whereever they are located in the string*/




data have; input text$100.; cards; lab_den_pcr_perf_1 mhh_cyto_tests_1__cfdna nad_cert_30 nad_imag_find___abn_cort_gyr ; data want; set have; new=prxchange('s/\d+//',-1,text); run;
Thanks,
Jag
ybz12003
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Thanks for the great suggestion. will looking into the prxchange function.

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