I have a an excel which contains extra character. How to serach for a specific strung and create another column to assign those value.
Here is a sample example.
data check;
input Message$40. ID ;
cards;
this&is&the&season 2
chrome&is&powerful&chrome 4
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&chrome. 3
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 5
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 6
the &error&is&comming&from&chrome 7
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&IE9 . 9
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 10
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 11
the&error&is&comming&from&chrome 12
;
run;
data check2;
set check;
if Message="chrome" then flag="chorme";
if Message="IE9" then flag="IE9";
else flag="";
run;
try using a CASE statement with LIKE in case you wanted to match any value within a string. Hope the below example sheds some light.
data check;
input Message$40. ID ;
cards;
this&is&the&season 2
chrome&is&powerful&chrome 4
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&chrome. 3
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 5
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 6
the &error&is&comming&from&chrome 7
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&IE9 . 9
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 10
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 11
the&error&is&comming&from&chrome 12
;
run;
proc sql ;
select
case
when Message like "%chrome%" then "chorme"
when Message like "%IE9%" then "IE9"
else "None"
end as flag,ID
from check;
quit ;
try using a CASE statement with LIKE in case you wanted to match any value within a string. Hope the below example sheds some light.
data check;
input Message$40. ID ;
cards;
this&is&the&season 2
chrome&is&powerful&chrome 4
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&chrome. 3
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 5
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 6
the &error&is&comming&from&chrome 7
chrome&is&causing&the&Error&IE9 . 9
the&service¢er&is&causing&the&Error. 10
the&error&is&comming&from&IE9 11
the&error&is&comming&from&chrome 12
;
run;
proc sql ;
select
case
when Message like "%chrome%" then "chorme"
when Message like "%IE9%" then "IE9"
else "None"
end as flag,ID
from check;
quit ;
I think you may be looking for this:
if indexw(upcase(Message),"CHROME",'&')>0 then flag="chrome";
Since this looks like unstructured text the upcase and the searched for word in upper case may work better if you want to find Chrome, CHROME, CHrome, cHrome and such. I recommend a similar UPCASE approach with the IE9 search as you may have folks enter ie9.
Waht do you want to do if both chrome and IE9 are present?
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