Hi All,
I am not getting expected results when using INDEXC (please see code below). I would expect all records in the dataset UnSure rather than in For_Sure -
DATA TEST;
INPUT Name $50.;
INFILE DATALINES;
DATALINES;
DREFT ESTATES LTD
POTTERSLANE LTD
;
RUN;
DATA For_Sure UnSure;
SET TEST;
IF indexc(Name, "GOVERNMENT") > 0
OR indexc(Name, "COLLEGE") > 0 then OUTPUT For_Sure;
ELSE OUTPUT UnSure;
RUN;
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
SK
Hi All,
I figured out that I need to use INDEX rather than INDEXC to solve this problem.
Kind regards
SK
Yes, function indexc() searchs for one single character in the string, where index() searchs for the whole text. You can compress your code somewhat, if <> is looking for a binary 1 or 0 result, so index() or findw() (which i show below) will return 0 if not present, so 0 result, and anything is positive and considered true (also, please dont code all in capitals, it makes reading it very hard):
data test; input name $50.; datalines; DREFT ESTATES LTD POTTERSLANE LTD ; run; data for_sure unsure; set test; if findw(name,"GOVERNMENT") or findw(name,"COLLEGE") then output for_sure; else output unsure; run;
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