Hi,      I have a variable as 'pr_ins_name' and example :        FASHION CO (M) BHD AS OWNER, LOOP  FASHION CO (M) BHD AS OWNER, LOOP INTER  ABC TECHONLOGY SDN BHD AS PRINCIPAL  ABD TECHONLOGY SDN BHD AS PRINCIPAL (AS MENTION  FLORA LIMITED  FLORA LTD  XYZ123 SDN BHD ON THE LIFE OF LKC  XYZ123 SDN BHD ON THE LIFE OF M  CAPTAIN APPAREL AS HIRER AND CONTRACTOR  YS ENTERPRISE AS HIRER AND HP DEVELOPMENT     I would like to remove those words (in Bold) :  1) contain "AS OWNER" , "AS PRINCIPAL" , "AS HIRER" , "ON THE LIFE OF" , "AS HIRER"  2) replace the "LIMITED" with "LTD"     How to combine above into one statement ?        data want;  set sasuser.name;    ins_name = substr (pr_ins_Name,1,find(pr_ins_name, ' AS OWNER')) ;  ins_name = substr (pr_ins_Name,1,find(pr_ins_name, ' AS HIRER')) ;  ins_name = substr (pr_ins_Name,1,find(pr_ins_name, ' AS PRINCIPAL')) ;  ins_name = substr (pr_ins_Name,1,find(pr_ins_name, ' ON THE LIFE OF')) ;       run;        Thank you. 
						
					
					... View more