Hi, My question is the code like, data work.test; title='A TALE OF TWO CITIES, CHARLES J. DICKENS' WORD=SCAN(title,3,' ,'); run; What is the value of word? A. T B. OF C.DICKENS D. ''MISSING CHARACTER VALUE I have run this code in sas like, data work1; input title $ 1-39; datalines; A TALE OF TWO CITIES, CHARLES J. DICKENS run; data work1; WORD=SCAN(title,3,' ,'); run; And i got log message like, 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 61 62 data work1; 63 input title $ 1-39; 64 datalines; NOTE: The data set WORK.WORK1 has 1 observations and 1 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds 66 WORD=SCAN(title,3); 66 WORD=SCAN(title,3); ____ 180 ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. 67 run; 68 data work1; 69 WORD=SCAN(title,3,' ,'); 70 run; NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by: (Line):(Column). 69:11 NOTE: Variable title is uninitialized. NOTE: The data set WORK.WORK1 has 1 observations and 2 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds 71 72 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 85 So, What will be the answer comes? As my logic answer sholde be missing character value!
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