How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

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I want to search for list of drugs in oracle database. can I list all the drugs in proc sql in where clause as below?

 WHERE (
(A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE',' ASENAPINE',BREXPIPRAZOLE)

I got  ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, )

Please help

Thanks,

[LinusH]

CONTAINS doesn't support a list as argument. You need to combine them with OR.

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With below code got error again:
ERROR: CONTAINS operator requires character operands.
A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE' or 'ASENAPINE' or 'BREXPIPRAZOLE').
Anything wrong?

[Reeza]

The syntax is incorrect, you need a contains for each argument, definitely a bit cumbersome. 

A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE') 
                                 or CONTAINS ('ASENAPINE')
                                 or ...

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

proc sql;
  select *
  from   <YOUR_TABLE> A
  where  A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 in ("ARIPIPRAZOLE","ASENAPINE","BREXPIPRAZOLE");
quit;

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I find variations in drug name like ARIPIPRAZOLE++, ARIPIPRAZOLE
Contains brings both. I will go with contains
WHERE t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE')
OR t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('CLOZAPINE');
This code worked .
Thank you so much!!

[RW9]

There are other constructs which may help you:

where XYZ like "*ABC*";

will give you all which contain the string ABC. 

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I cannot list all drugs using like, right?
WHERE t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 like ('*ARIPIPRAZOLE*','*ASENAPINE*')

[RW9]

No, like is used for pattern matching.  Why are you looking for drug names by the way?  Should you data not be encoded with WHODrug codes - that is not only safer (you don't miss ones) its simpler as well because you can use higher level terms to bring out groups of related drugs.  Also its standard in the industry.