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Calcite | Level 5

Hi Experts,

 

   I have a variable that has different strings seperated by a pipe sign, Say as : VAR1 = STRING1|STRING2|STRING3 and so - on.

Where only one string will contain a KEYWORD --> "EXTRACT_ME".

And I would like to extract only the string that has EXTRACT_ME keyword. (an example is shown below)

 

I can defenitely achieve it with the help of a DO loop and serach for the KEYWORD in each string one by one and extract it.

But I'm looking for something more effieicnt that really need to put it in a do loop. Maybe Perl Expression?

Experts: Any advise? Appreciate your help.

 

 

INPUT_VAR OUTPUT_VAR
FIRST STRING|EXTRACT_ME[ABC]|SECOND STRING EXTRACT_ME[ABC]
STRING ONE|EXTRACT_ME[ABCDEFG]|STRING THREE|STRING FOUR EXTRACT_ME[ABCDEFG]
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Reeza
Super User

 

You can do it with a combination of string functions, but PERL will probably work better. 

 

data have;
string="FIRST STRING|EXTRACT_ME[ABC]|SECOND STRING";output;
string="STRING ONE|EXTRACT_ME[ABCDEFG]|STRING THREE|STRING FOUR";output;
run;

data want;
	set have;
	loc= index(string, "EXTRACT_ME");
	if loc>0 then end= index(substr(string, loc), "|");
	want=substr(string, loc, end-1);
run;
Astounding
PROC Star

You'll need a slight modification, since LOC > 0 should control execution of the remainder of the statements (not just one).

 

A similar possibility:

 

if loc > 0 then want = scan(substr(string, loc), 1, '|');

Ksharp
Super User
What reason  force you to use PRX ?


data have;
string="FIRST STRING|EXTRACT_ME[ABC]|SECOND STRING";output;
string="STRING ONE|EXTRACT_ME[ABCDEFG]|STRING THREE|STRING FOUR";output;
run;
data want;
 set have;
 length want $ 200;
 pid=prxparse('/EXTRACT_ME\[\w+\]/oi');
 call prxsubstr(pid,string,p,l);
 if p then want=substr(string,p,l); 
 drop pid p l;
run;


FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Just in case you don't need the redundant "EXTRACT_ME[]," but only what's in the square brackets behind this keyword, you can modify Ksharp's Perl regular expression for example as follows:

pid=prxparse('/(?<=EXTRACT_ME\[)[^\]]+/oi');

This expression matches a sequence of one or more characters not equal to "]" after the text "EXTRACT_ME[" (case-insensitive).

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