Searching literals

malena · Posted 11-17-2017 10:30 AM

I am doing literal searches for several variables for specific terms.

One of these variables contains a description of up to 100 terms. So I am doing a search on this variable for a specific term: One of these terms is "OD". But I do not want to count them if the terms are "probable OD" or "suspected OD".

I am using these 2 functions: findw and index, are these any other better functions to use?

thanks!

mkeintz · Posted 11-17-2017 10:35 AM

Please show example, using a starting SAS data set, and the desired result.

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Reeza · Posted 11-17-2017 10:39 AM

PRXMATCH, which is regular expressions. They're incredibly powerful for searching text strings.

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