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msharma1788
Calcite | Level 5

Hi Team,

 

I have a dataset ABC

Var 1                                                 Var2                                                        Var3

PPO with HRA LocalPlus®              Silver                                                         PTO Cash Out

 

I need to set an Indicator Y  if any if the variable 1, 2 or 3 contains LIKE'%Local%' .

 

IF Var1 or Var2 or var3 LIKE'%Local%' . THEN Var4 = 'Y';

 

Please help as how we can do this, as LIKE works with were , what other option we have to do this and get expected result.

 

Thanks!

 

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Ksharp
Super User

Array.

data a;
input (Var1-Var3) (& $40.);
cards;
PPO with HRA LocalPlus       Silver               PTO Cash Out
PPO with HRA LPlus       Silver               PTO Cash Out
;
data want; 
 set a;
 array x{*} $ var: ;
 do i=1 to dim(x);
  if find(x{i},'Local') then do; flag='Y';leave;end;
 end;
 drop i;
run;

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Ksharp
Super User

Array.

data a;
input (Var1-Var3) (& $40.);
cards;
PPO with HRA LocalPlus       Silver               PTO Cash Out
PPO with HRA LPlus       Silver               PTO Cash Out
;
data want; 
 set a;
 array x{*} $ var: ;
 do i=1 to dim(x);
  if find(x{i},'Local') then do; flag='Y';leave;end;
 end;
 drop i;
run;
Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

You cannot use LIKE with IF.  That only works with WHERE statements.

But since all you are doing is looking for a substring you can just use one of the many functions that do that.  INDEX(), FIND(), INDEXW(), FINDW().

Since you don't care which variable you find it you can just combine all of them and search that.

IF index(cats(of var1-var3),'Local') THEN Var4 = 'Y';

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