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mu6110283
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, I have a column in a table having string values like:

 

have: "amazing,123 cruise|amazing2,123 cruise2|"

want: "amazing | amazing2"

 

summary: need to delete substrings occurring between "," and "|" and then delete ","

 

The column has lots of such values and I want to replace wherever such instance occurs.

 

Urgent help required, thanks!

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Ksharp
Super User
data have;
have="amazing,123 cruise|amazing2,123 cruise2|";
want=prxchange('s/\,[^\,\|]+\|/|/',-1,have);
run;
proc print;run;

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

Wouldn't you want string be 

 

want: "amazing | amazing2|"

then?

Ksharp
Super User
data have;
have="amazing,123 cruise|amazing2,123 cruise2|";
want=prxchange('s/\,[^\,\|]+\|/|/',-1,have);
run;
proc print;run;

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