I would like to find rows where the variable NAME has 2 or 3 consecutive spaces in the string. I used
find(name,' ');
but it returns all rows. What am I doing wrong?
I suggest you try:
if name ne compbl(name);
Using FIND will locate trailing blanks on strings. SAS character variables are padded with trailing blanks if the text doesn't take up the full variable lengths.
I suggest you try:
if name ne compbl(name);
Using FIND will locate trailing blanks on strings. SAS character variables are padded with trailing blanks if the text doesn't take up the full variable lengths.
find( strip(name) ,' ');
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