Extracting part of a title

[Walternate]

Hello,

I have a variable listing book titles and I'd like to identify which titles have the word "End" in them. The word can be at different positions in the title so I'm not sure which command to use.

Thanks!

[DBailey]

index(title,'END')

[data_null__]

The OP mentioned word end not string.  I would think indexW.

[Astounding]

Building upon what has already been suggested:

search_result = indexW(upcase(title), 'END');

SEARCH_RESULT will be 0 when END is not found, and > 0 when it is found.

Good luck.

[data_null__]

OR maybe FINDW with option to ignore case.  So may choices. :smileyshocked:

[AncaTilea]

I think :

found = (prxmatch('m/end/i', title) > 0); * the 'i' allows for both lower or upper case, it tells SAS that the match is case insensitive;

Good luck!

Anca.

[Data_Detective_23219]

indexW would be my choice coupled with the upcase function in order to remedy any upper/lower case variations of the word end.

[VD · Accepted solution]

Assuming that your title variable is BookTitleVar:

proc sql;

  create table want as

  select  BookTitleVar

  from have

  where upcase(BookTitleVar) like '%END%';

quit;