I have the following data:
Sports |
11 Foot Ball |
112 Soccer and golf |
2345 basketball |
12 Table tennis |
But I want to keep only the part after the first space. ie:
Sports |
Foot Ball |
Soccer and golf |
basketball |
Table tennis |
How do I go about doing this?
Final_Col in below dataset has the target output.
DATA TEMP;
INPUT Sports $1-35;
Fst_Col= Length(Scan(STRIP(Sports),1));
Final_col= SUBSTR(Sports,Fst_col+1);
DROP Fst_Col;
CARDS;
11 Foot Ball
112 Soccer and golf
2345 basketball
12 Table tennis
;
RUN;
Final_Col in below dataset has the target output.
DATA TEMP;
INPUT Sports $1-35;
Fst_Col= Length(Scan(STRIP(Sports),1));
Final_col= SUBSTR(Sports,Fst_col+1);
DROP Fst_Col;
CARDS;
11 Foot Ball
112 Soccer and golf
2345 basketball
12 Table tennis
;
RUN;
@BenBrady You just need one assignment
data have;
input sports $20.;
cards;
11 Foot Ball
112 Soccer and golf
2345 basketball
12 Table tennis
;
data want;
set have;
sports=substr(sports,anyspace(sports)+1);
run;
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