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Jack1
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello,

I want to import the following data into SAS:

 

DescriptionQ12013Q22013
Industrial aggregate including unclassified businesses [00-91N]  (5,6)1507437415463301
Industrial aggregate excluding unclassified businesses [11-91N]  (5,6)1483563215219329
Goods producing industries [11-33N]  (7)27006022829935

 

 

My question: I want to import the Description column but I do not want to include the numbers/letters/commas in brackets (whether squared or round). I also don't want the brackets. How do I code an infile statement to exclude all these components so I only have written descriptions in my SAS dataset? Thanks Jack

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Reeza
Super User

Look at the SCAN function with the [ as the delimiter. 

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