how to capture character variable data containing space

[Abraham]

Hi,

In the attached sheet, I want to read the data into SAS environment and then find all country id with extra space in the beginning or middle.

How to proceed. My output would be country id 222, 223 and 226

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

Why do you want to have 226 included? There's no blank at the beginning or in the middle, only at the end.

Checking a SAS character variable for trailing blanks makes no sense, as _all_ SAS character variables have trailing blanks (unless they're completely filled). "Empty" character variables contain blanks.

To find the others, you might want to check

if indexc(trim(countryname),' ') > 0;