How to use wildcards and like operators for multiple values?

[Babloo]

I would like extract the data like below. But it is creating table with all rows from maps.uscity instead of required records.

It looks I need to tweak the code in like operator to get only the records that has city like below.

proc sql;

create table FI_Locations as select * from maps.uscity where city like  '%Atlanta%' or '%Cary%' or '%Hartford%' ;

quit;

[Babloo]

any thoughts?

[JuanS_OCS]

Hi Babloo,

depending on your database, maybe you can use the "contains" comparator, instead of  "like", then you won;t need the wildcards.

[Babloo]

I would like to know if i can combine the below data step into one step.

proc sql;

create table FI_Locations_at as select * from maps.uscity where city contains  'Atlanta';

quit;

proc sql;

create table FI_Locations_ca as select * from maps.uscity where city contains  'Cary';

quit;

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

LIKE only can handle one expression one time.

proc sql;

create table FI_Locations as select * from maps.uscity where city like  '%Atlanta%' or  city like '%Cary%' or  city like  '%Hartford%' ;

quit;

Xia Keshan

[user24feb]

.. if you need to combine your where-statement with and-statements you might prefer ..

proc sql;

create table FI_Locations as select * from maps.uscity where

  (Case When city like '%Atlanta%' or

             city like '%Cary%' or

             city like '%Hartford%' Then 1

             Else 0

   End)=1;

quit;