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lillymaginta1
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi Everyone,

I want to retain 1 if the word 'drug' was found in a string, including upper and lower case words. 

data have;
infile cards ;
input ID   name ;	 
cards;
001 This is a drug 
001 A drug 
003 Drug
004  None 
004  None
;

Output data 

ID   Name              Var
001 This is a drug      1
001 A drug              1
003 Drug                1
004  None               0
004  None               0

 

 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@lillymaginta1 wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I want to retain 1 if the word 'drug' was found in a string, including upper and lower case words. 

data have;
infile cards ;
input ID   name ;	 
cards;
001 This is a drug 
001 A drug 
003 Drug
004  None 
004  None
;

Output data 

ID   Name              Var
001 This is a drug      1
001 A drug              1
003 Drug                1
004  None               0
004  None               0

 

 


Not really sure what "including upper and lower case words" means here, and I don't want to guess. Does your data show an example? Does your data show an opposite example?

--
Paige Miller
lillymaginta1
Obsidian | Level 7
I meant regardless if the word drug is listed as 'Drug' or 'drug' which is shown in the example above
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

You can use the FINDW function, with the 'i' modifier which will ignore the case of the letters. Example: https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarg...

 

 

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Paige Miller
singhsahab
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
data have;
infile cards ;
input ID  $3. name  $30. ;
if findw(name,'Drug',' ','i') then var=1;
else var=0;
cards;
001 This is a drug 
001 A drug 
003 Drug
004 None 
004 None
;
run;

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