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Community_Guide
SAS Moderator

Hello @sas_student1,


Your question requires more details before experts can help. Can you revise your question to include more information? 

 

Review this checklist:

  • Specify a meaningful subject line for your topic.  Avoid generic subjects like "need help," "SAS query," or "urgent."
  • When appropriate, provide sample data in text or DATA step format.  See this article for one method you can use.
  • If you're encountering an error in SAS, include the SAS log or a screenshot of the error condition. Use the Photos button to include the image in your message.
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  • It also helps to include an example (table or picture) of the result that you're trying to achieve.

To edit your original message, select the "blue gear" icon at the top of the message and select Edit Message.  From there you can adjust the title and add more details to the body of the message.  Or, simply reply to this message with any additional information you can supply.

 

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sas_student1
Quartz | Level 8

can you remove this post please.

I did not finish my post and accidently posted it.

I have a new post with the full question

Trying to figure out how to remove this one and cant seem to find the delete option

ballardw
Super User

The function COUNTW may work depending on how well you define "number of strings".

Of course that is for a single observation.

Do you mean to count across observations?

 

Example input data and example output for the given input will help provide more specifics.

 

Issues that can affect this sort of count are quoted strings with imbedded delimiters to count as one "string", Strings with delimiters such as period  (is library.dataset to be counted as one string or two?), numeric values with commas and or decimals (is 3,456.7 to be one word, two or 3?)

Presence of special characters such as * / ()%@ and should they be treated as word separators or not.

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