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Mike_Davis
Fluorite | Level 6


Hello everyone,

I want to count how many specified letter in a string,

such as:

%let have=123#45#678#9; we need to count how many '#' in the string.

in this case there are total three '#' in the string.

Thanks

data one;

a="123#45#678#9";

b=somefunction(a,'#');

run;

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

How about countc()?

data one;

a="123#45#678#9";

b=countc(a,'#');

put b=;

run;

Mike_Davis
Fluorite | Level 6

data one;

a="123#45#678#9";

b=count(a,'#');

run;

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