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daisy6
Quartz | Level 8

Hello,

I have a string of characters and I need those values in parentheses. 

data title;
input title $20.;
datalines;
National Geography (NG)
Time (T)
National Food and Energy Council (NFC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
National Hockey League (NHL)
National Football League (NFL)
;
run;

The results I want are: 

NG

T

NFC

NHL

NFL

Thanks for the help!

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Astounding
PROC Star

This takes the first set of characters in parentheses, and doesn't consider whether there might be other sets of parentheses:

 

newvar = scan(oldvar, 2, '()');

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FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

If they always are at the end this is a quicky:

 

newTitle = compress(reverse(scan(reverse(title),1)),'()');

 

Untested, but should work 🙂

//Fredrik

daisy6
Quartz | Level 8

Thanks for reply. It works !

Astounding
PROC Star

This takes the first set of characters in parentheses, and doesn't consider whether there might be other sets of parentheses:

 

newvar = scan(oldvar, 2, '()');

daisy6
Quartz | Level 8

Thanks for that! It works!

Ksharp
Super User
data title;
input title $40.;
if findc(title,')','b')=length(title) then want=scan(title,-1,'() ') ;
datalines;
National Geography (NG)
Time (T)
National Food and Energy Council (NFC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
National Hockey League (NHL)
National Football League (NFL)
;
run;

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