Hi all,
I have a need to parse some incoming airline messages. One of the text messages (called MSG_RAW_TEXT) can have any flight-related information. I am interested in finding only messages that CONTAIN:
[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9] CYQXZZZ[A-Z]
This means the first character can be 0,1,2,3; the second can be 0 to 9, the third can be 0-2, etc.
Other pieces of information could be in the text...thanks
@BCNAV wrote:
[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9] CYQXZZZ[A-Z]
This means the first character can be 0,1,2,3; the second can be 0 to 9, the third can be 0-2, etc.
This looks like a regular expression.
388 data _null_;
389 input string $80.;
390 x = prxmatch('/[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9] CYQXZZZ[A-Z]/',string);
391 put _all_;
392 cards;
string=492949 CZQXZZZF x=0 _ERROR_=0 _N_=1
string=392949 CYQXZZZF x=1 _ERROR_=0 _N_=2
x=1 means found
And CYQXZZZ means the actual letters, CYQXZZZ, correct?
yes...CYQXZZZ will ALWAYS be present in the text
Something like this?
data have;
input msg $20.;
if prxmatch('/[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9]CYQXZZZ[A-Z]/',msg)>0 then output;
datalines;
fiwejofjwofjw
241748CYQXZZZA
946248CYQXZZZB
301748CYQXZZZQ
;
@BCNAV wrote:
[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9] CYQXZZZ[A-Z]
This means the first character can be 0,1,2,3; the second can be 0 to 9, the third can be 0-2, etc.
This looks like a regular expression.
388 data _null_;
389 input string $80.;
390 x = prxmatch('/[0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9] CYQXZZZ[A-Z]/',string);
391 put _all_;
392 cards;
string=492949 CZQXZZZF x=0 _ERROR_=0 _N_=1
string=392949 CYQXZZZF x=1 _ERROR_=0 _N_=2
x=1 means found
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