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Mohan_Reddy
Obsidian | Level 7

 

I Have dataset like below..





data stansys;
infile datalines;
input string $22.;
datalines;
two numbers 1 2
five numbers 3 4 5 6 7
three numbers 8 9 10
;
run;


Through this dataset i want output dataset have variable name " Number" it have values like 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


like this only...

Please anyone help us to this programme

 

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Accepted Solutions
PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

Like this?

 

data want(keep=w);
    set stansys;
    do i = 1 to  countw(string);
        w = scan(string, i);
        if prxmatch('/\b\d+\b/', w) then output;
    end;
run;

 

Result:

 

w 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10

 

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

Like this?

 

data want(keep=w);
    set stansys;
    do i = 1 to  countw(string);
        w = scan(string, i);
        if prxmatch('/\b\d+\b/', w) then output;
    end;
run;

 

Result:

 

w 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10

 

Mohan_Reddy
Obsidian | Level 7
Any Another type programme we have for this same question ???
ed_sas_member
Meteorite | Level 14

Hi @Mohan_Reddy 

 

Here is another approach:

data want (keep=number);
	set stansys;
	do i=1 to countw(compress(string,"","Kd"));
		number = scan(compress(string,"","Kd"),i);
		output;
	end;
run;
Mohan_Reddy
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank You Very Much 🙂

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