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sandrube
Fluorite | Level 6

Hello friends,

 

I am trying to drop observations ending in "_A" of the variable, "category". I used the following code and didn't work. Could you please help?

 

If substr(category, - 1, 2)="_0" then delete;

 

Thank you and all have a wonderful weekend!

Rube

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Tom
Super User Tom
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You cannot use negative numbers with SUBSTR().

if substrn(category,length(category)-1) = '_A' then delete;

You can use negative numbers with SCAN().

if scan(category,-1,'_') = 'A' then delete;

Do you ever have values that are just 'A' without any underscore?

Do you ever have values with lowercase a as the suffix?

if index(category,'_') and upcase(scan(category,-1,'_')) = 'A' then delete;

 

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

You cannot use negative numbers with SUBSTR().

if substrn(category,length(category)-1) = '_A' then delete;

You can use negative numbers with SCAN().

if scan(category,-1,'_') = 'A' then delete;

Do you ever have values that are just 'A' without any underscore?

Do you ever have values with lowercase a as the suffix?

if index(category,'_') and upcase(scan(category,-1,'_')) = 'A' then delete;

 

sandrube
Fluorite | Level 6
Thank you very much and have a great weekend!

Rube

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