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robertrao
Quartz | Level 8

Hello,

From the below character_variable I only want to pick the ones with 5 digits:

I want to eliminate the rest. Do I use Substring??

CODE_VARIABLE

10351

101

11223040

32421

10449900

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Reeza
Super User

Length() function returns the length of a string.

SAS(R) 9.2 Language Reference: Dictionary, Fourth Edition

MadhuKorni
Quartz | Level 8

data Want;

input Code_Variable $;

if length(Code_Variable) eq 5;

cards;

10351

101

11223040

32421

10449900

;

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