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_Hopper
Obsidian | Level 7

I'm trying to match a character variable pattern. It is of the form "000-ABCD" (three digits, dash, four capital alpha characters).

 

I used the following code, but it must be incorrect as it did not return anything:

 

data blah;
set blah;
if prxmatch('/\d{3}-\[A-Z]{4}/', refid);
run;

 

 

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Ksharp
Super User
data blah;
input refid $40.;
cards;
000-ABCD
0A0-ABCD
;
data want;
set blah;
if prxmatch('/\d{3}-[A-Z]{4}/', refid);
run;

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