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chrisjab
Fluorite | Level 6

I am trying to extract the middle 2 numbers from the group names below: 

 

  • VIPER170891
  • HEAT170992
  • BULLS170691

 

I applied the formula below; however, I am getting an error. 

 

SUBSTR(RIGHT(SCAN(t1.GROUPNAME, -1, ' ')),4,2)
 
Can someone help ? 
 
Thanks, 
 
Chris

 

 

 

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art297
Opal | Level 21

Here is one way:

data have;
  informat groupname $15.;
  input groupname;
  want=substr(groupname,anydigit(groupname)+2,2);
  cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

 

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art297
Opal | Level 21

Here is one way:

data have;
  informat groupname $15.;
  input groupname;
  want=substr(groupname,anydigit(groupname)+2,2);
  cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

 

chrisjab
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you for your help; It worked ! 

art297
Opal | Level 21

After posting my suggestion, I noticed that your initial code looked like it was pulled from a proc sql instance. If so, the following would work:

data have;
  informat groupname $15.;
  input groupname;
  cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;

proc sql;
  create table want as
    select substr(t1.groupname,anydigit(groupname)+2,2) as want
      from have t1
  ;
quit;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

 

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

if your pattern holds true for all obs

 

data have;
  informat groupname $15.;
  input groupname;
  want=reverse(substr(reverse(strip(groupname)),3,2));
  cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;


/*if reading a dataset*/
data have;
 informat groupname $15.;
 input groupname;
 cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;

data want;
set have;
want=reverse(substr(reverse(strip(groupname)),3,2));
run;

 

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

Another way, this 'kd' thing was shared by Art to me only yesterday 🙂

 

data have;
  informat groupname $15.;
  input groupname;
  cards;
VIPER170891
HEAT170992
BULLS170691
;

data want;
set have;
want=substr(compress(strip(groupname),'','kd'),3,2) ;
run;

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