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MarcTC
Obsidian | Level 7
Suppose this string is:

s ="Amy,Jeff,Paul,Mary"

I can get the first two words using Scan function twice:

w2 = scan(s,1,',')||scan(s,2,',');

Is there any single function call which can accomplish this?
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chang_y_chung_hotmail_com
Obsidian | Level 7
Of course. Here is one, assuming a "word" means something delimited by a comma and possibly the beginning and ending boundaries of a character value.



   data _null_;


     s = "Amy,Jeff,Paul,Mary";


     w2 = prxchange("s|^(.+?),(.+?),.*|$1+$2|",1,s);


     put s= w2=;


   run;


   /* on log


   s=Amy,Jeff,Paul,Mary w2=Amy+Jeff


   */

MarcTC
Obsidian | Level 7
Thanks, expert!

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