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shughe5
Calcite | Level 5

I am trying to find observations that contain one word in a string but NOT another.

For example, my observations look something like this:

Diabetes mellitus

Screening for diabetes mellitus

Type II diabetes 

History of diabetes

Family history of type II diabetes

Encounter for screening of diabetes mellitus

 

I want to return observations that contain 'diabetes' or 'Diabetes' but NOT 'Screening' 'screening' 'History' 'history'

I tried what I thought the most intuitive way to do this would be:

proc freq data=data;

tables diagnosis;

where find(diagnosis, 'diabetes') or find(diagnosis, 'Diabetes') and not find(diagnosis, 'History') or find(diagnosis, 'screening');

run;

but obviously, this did not work and returned observations that DO contain History and Screening, ignoring the 'not.' Is the find function the best way to do this? 

 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
    set have;
    if find(diagnosis,'diabetes','i')>0 and find(diagnosis,'history','i')=0 and find(diagnosis,'screening','i')=0;
run;
--
Paige Miller

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
    set have;
    if find(diagnosis,'diabetes','i')>0 and find(diagnosis,'history','i')=0 and find(diagnosis,'screening','i')=0;
run;
--
Paige Miller
shughe5
Calcite | Level 5
Awesome, thank you.

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