Dear All, I am a teacher, I would like to help my students in the following manner with their vocabulary: I have a list of words that I want to them to learn (say @ “D:\SASFiles\Vocab.txt”). I have a classic book, BleakHouse.txt in the same location. I would like to use SAS to extract sentences from the book for each word in the vocab.txt. Here is an illustration of the final result. alacrity At the inn we found Mr. Boythorn on horseback, waiting with an open carriage to take us to his house, which was a few miles off. He was overjoyed to see us and dismounted with great alacrity. approbation In case I should be taking a liberty in putting your ladyship on your guard when there's no necessity for it, you will endeavour, I should hope, to outlive my presumption, and I hall endeavour to outlive your disapprobation. audacious I wouldn't be guilty of the audacious insolence of keeping a lady of the house waiting all this time for any earthly consideration. I would infinitely rather destroy myself--infinitely rather! capricious Too capricious and imperious in all she does to be the cause of much surprise in those about her as to anything she does, this woman, loosely muffled, goes out into the moonlight. It will be too much of a favor, at least if someone can help to proceed in the right step, it will be highly appreciated: How to extract sentences from a text files (ebook in txt format). How to compare the two data sets: vocab with words and the dataset with sentences. Thanks in advance, Jijil
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