Hi everyone,
I have the following data with company name and TIC code.
Company | TIC |
A | CAVR.1 |
B | CAB.3 |
C | 4330B |
Now with TIC code that have character '.' , I would like to extract only characters before the '.'
For example, TIC code CAVR.1 will be sub-stringed to CAVR
The output looks like this:
Company | TIC |
A | CAVR |
B | CAB |
C | 4330B |
Can anyone help me with this, please? Any idea would be much appreciated
TIC = scan(TIC, 1, '.');
The SCAN function gets the first word in the string where the word boundary is a dot.
TIC = scan(TIC, 1, '.');
The SCAN function gets the first word in the string where the word boundary is a dot.
data have;
input Company$ TIC$;
datalines;
A CAVR.1
B CAB.3
C 4330B
;
data want;
set have;
tic=scan(TIC, 1, '.');
run;
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