how to find unexpected characters in a string

[thanikondharish]

I have one dataset/dummy data .

for example:

data test ;

length text $ 20 ;

text='i love you' ;

output;

text='i like you' ;

output ;

run;

my question is how to find unexcepted values in text variable ?

[PeterClemmensen]

Define 'unexpected' ?

[thanikondharish]

I have copied some text from Excel and pasted into sas

[andreas_lds]

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@thanikondharish wrote:
I have copied some text from Excel and pasted into sas

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Please define "unexpected".

[Quentin]

Suggest looking into the VERIFY() function.