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sarkar_kanchan
Calcite | Level 5

Hi All,

Please help me to find out the solution for this ...

Comment is my variable ... i would like to extract only the Digit from the comment .For example  from the first line i need to extract 150 and from the second i want to extract 100 and so on .I tried with anydigit option but its not working as it only show 1 or 0 if there is any digit in the below comment.My date set large and have more than 10000 comments like this .

43534-PP - ABCDEF 150 ABC ABCD

07052-TT - ABCD 100 ABCDEFG

83092-DD -   ABCDEFG  540 ABCDEFRGTH

Regards

kanchan

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

This seems working on your as-is data:

DATA TEST;

     INFILE CARDS TRUNCOVER;

     INPUT VAR $100.;

     DIGITS=prxchange('s/^\d+\D+|\D+$//o',-1,var);

     CARDS;

43534-PP - ABCDEF 150 ABC ABCD

07052-TT - ABCD 100 ABCDEFG

83092-DD -   ABCDEFG 540 ABCDEFRGTH

;

Haikuo

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Or just use scan, nice one xia keshan.

Alternatively, without perl:

data test;

  infile cards truncover;

  input var $100.;

  digits=compress(scan(var,3,'-'),' ','a');

cards;

43534-PP - ABCDEF 150 ABC ABCD

07052-TT - ABCD 100 ABCDEFG

83092-DD -   ABCDEFG 540 ABCDEFRGTH

;

run;

Ksharp
Super User

DATA TEST;

     INFILE CARDS TRUNCOVER;

     INPUT VAR $100.;

     DIGITS=scan(var,2,,'kd');

     CARDS;

43534-PP - ABCDEF 150 ABC ABCD

07052-TT - ABCD 100 ABCDEFG

83092-DD -   ABCDEFG 540 ABCDEFRGTH

;

run;

Xia Keshan

Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

Nice. Never see 'kd' option in SCAN(). Thanks for sharing!

Well in this case, depending on OP's rules, DIGITS=scan(var,-1,,'kd'); will also be OK.

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