Hello,
I have a data looks like this below. I would like to count number of times substring 'Id' appeared in the variable Practise. I tried below code but it does not work, my code generates only 0.
Raw Data:
Practise |
Id: John, Id: Kerstin, Name: sunny, |
Name: Kane, Id: Rohan |
Id: Ranson, Name: X_, Id: Stary |
Id:Ata, Name: Unknown, Id: Aka, Name, Unknown, Id: Prx |
Expected Result:
Practise | Id_Count |
Id: John, Id: Kerstin, Name: sunny, | 2 |
Name: Kane, Id: Rohan | 1 |
Id: Ranson, Name: X_, Id: Stary | 2 |
Id:Ata, Name: Unknown, Id: Aka, Name, Unknown, Id: Prx | 3 |
My SAS code:
data samp ;
set Clean;
count_Id = count(Practice, 'Id:');
put count_Id;
run;
@chapidi99 What doesn't work? Your code appears to return the expected result for your sample data.
data have;
infile datalines truncover dlm='|';
input Practise :$100. count_expected;
datalines;
Id: John, Id: Kerstin, Name: sunny,|2
Name: Kane, Id: Rohan|1
Id: Ranson, Name: X_, Id: Stary|2
Id:Ata, Name: Unknown, Id: Aka, Name, Unknown, Id: Prx|3
;
data want;
set have;
count_Id = count(Practise, 'Id:');
count_derived_1=count(Practise,'id:','i');
run;
@chapidi99 What doesn't work? Your code appears to return the expected result for your sample data.
data have;
infile datalines truncover dlm='|';
input Practise :$100. count_expected;
datalines;
Id: John, Id: Kerstin, Name: sunny,|2
Name: Kane, Id: Rohan|1
Id: Ranson, Name: X_, Id: Stary|2
Id:Ata, Name: Unknown, Id: Aka, Name, Unknown, Id: Prx|3
;
data want;
set have;
count_Id = count(Practise, 'Id:');
count_derived_1=count(Practise,'id:','i');
run;
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