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brywhi11
Calcite | Level 5

Hello

I'm a new user to SAS so this may sound like an easy question but I can't figure it out. I have a list of numbers that have a dash at the end of the number followed by additional numbers. The numbers before the dash can range in length from 8-12 digits long. I'm trying to remove the dash and all the numbers that follow the dash. Below is an example

12345-1  would like it to read as 12345

123456789-00 would like it to read as 123456789

123456789123-002 would like it to read as 123456789123

Hopefully that makes sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Reeza
Super User

new_number=scan(number, 1, "-");

brywhi11
Calcite | Level 5

That worked! Thank you very much!

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