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trungcva112
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi everyone,

 

I have the following data with company name and TIC code.

CompanyTIC
ACAVR.1
BCAB.3
C4330B

 

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:

CompanyTIC
ACAVR
BCAB
C4330B

 

Can anyone help me with this, please? Any idea would be much appreciated

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SASKiwi
PROC Star
TIC = scan(TIC, 1, '.');

The SCAN function gets the first word in the string where the word boundary is a dot.

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SASKiwi
PROC Star
TIC = scan(TIC, 1, '.');

The SCAN function gets the first word in the string where the word boundary is a dot.

PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20
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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