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knveraraju91
Barite | Level 11

Dear,

 

In my data the 'previous id'  value present in some character values of some OBS. I need to subset the dataset containing previous id value.Please help. Thank you

 

data

 

ID        value

1      Day -00 to -0-Previous ID

2      Day -11 to -16

 

output needed;

id                value

1           Day -00 to -0-Previous ID

 

 

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Reeza
Super User

Your looking for the actual text - Previous ID? 

 

Try FINDW() or INDEXW()

 

or

 

in a Where clause you can use LIKE.  

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