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Johnlee
Calcite | Level 5

Dear all,

How to pick up a symbol or/and number in a paragraph? for example, how to extract "#" or "678" or "#  678" from the following data named as text? The attached dataset can be read into SAS in the following code.

DATA text;

INFILE "C:\text.txt"

dlm="," lrecl=5000;

informat var1 $256.; 

format var1 $256.;   

input var1;

RUN;

thanks!

John


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Ksharp
Super User

COMPRESS() is enough powerful for this .

data want;

set text;

var2=compress(var1,'#' , 'kd');

run;

Xia Keshan

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Reeza
Super User

Look into the compress function for starters. Regular expressions will also get you there, but a bit harder to understand off the start.

data want;

set text;

var2=compress(var1, , 'a');

run;

proc print data=want;

run;

Ksharp
Super User

COMPRESS() is enough powerful for this .

data want;

set text;

var2=compress(var1,'#' , 'kd');

run;

Xia Keshan

Johnlee
Calcite | Level 5

Many thanks Reeza and Keshan!!

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