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draroda
Fluorite | Level 6

Dear All,

 

Please help in below.

 

Values                        Character        Numeric

ABC123                       ABC                123

12AB45                         AB                  1245

12345A                            A                  12345

A12D52                            AD               1252

123456                                                  123456

 

Can you please guide on how can i extract numeric and character in different ?

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16
Data have;
set want;
character=compress(values,,ka);
numeric=compress(values,,kd);
run;

Thanks,
Jag
Steelers_In_DC
Barite | Level 11

Here is a solution:

 

data have;
input values$;
cards;
ABC123
12AB45
12345A
A12D52
123456
;

data want;
set have;
NUMERIC = prxchange("s/[^0-9]//",-1,values);
CHARACTERS = prxchange("s/[^A-Z]//",-1,values);
NUMBERS = input(prxchange("s/[^0-9]//",-1,values),8.);
run;

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