data have;
text = "The quick brown fox jumps over 23 lazy dogs.(1-27) The quick brown-fox jumps over the lazy dog.(28)";
run;
data want;
set have;
text2 = compress(text,"()-1234567890");
run;
You can try to use a pearl regular expression:
data want;
set have;
text2=prxchange('s/\([\d-]+\)//i', -1, text);
run;
This looks for the pattern \([\d-]+\) in the variable 'text' as many times as needed (second argument = -1)
\([\d-]+\) = a parenthesis followed by one or more digits or hyphens followed by a parenthesis.
You can try to use a pearl regular expression:
data want;
set have;
text2=prxchange('s/\([\d-]+\)//i', -1, text);
run;
This looks for the pattern \([\d-]+\) in the variable 'text' as many times as needed (second argument = -1)
\([\d-]+\) = a parenthesis followed by one or more digits or hyphens followed by a parenthesis.
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