Dear all,
I need to go through a column and do substring search and only inlude the entry containing "within 10 minutes", "within 15 minutes", "minutes" "within" and "infusion", is this doable in SAS?
Thank you
zimcom
Yes, SAS can do this. Something like this, where text is the variable in your data set that you want to search.
Data want;
set have;
if find(text,'within 10 minutes')>0 or find(text,'infusion')>0 or ...
/* you type the rest */ then output;
run;
Also, did you really mean to use the word "and"? The code I gave assumes you really meant "or".
Yes, SAS can do this. Something like this, where text is the variable in your data set that you want to search.
Data want;
set have;
if find(text,'within 10 minutes')>0 or find(text,'infusion')>0 or ...
/* you type the rest */ then output;
run;
Also, did you really mean to use the word "and"? The code I gave assumes you really meant "or".
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