Hi everyone, i spent a lot of time searching for a solution and tried a lot of the provided ideas, but no one worked for us. if i missed a good fitting answer, please feel free to point me into the right direction... so, this is my first post ever, yay 🙂 our issue: we have a character variable ("CLORRES") containing a lot of words, some separated by blanks, some by comma, e.g. "multiple, white, food contents, slight" we need to extract some specific substrings from this variable (and these substrings contain also blanks, e.g. "food contents" and "white") which can appear on multiple positions. Then these findings/hits need be concatenated into another variable ("SUPP"). we tried: scan (with different modifiers: q, s, t) find (cant get it to work with a list of required subsstrings) do loops E.g.: /* Transfer of modifier "Csec" ("Color secretion") */
/* (can appear on several positions) to SUPP: */
DO i=1 to 20;
IF SCAN(CLORRES,i,', ') IN ('yellowish / greenish','food contents', 'dark', 'green contents', 'milky', 'pale', 'red contents', 'white contents', 'yellow contents') THEN DO;
SUPP = CATX(', ',test,SCAN(CLORRES,i,', ','t')); /* transfer of modifier to SUPP */
END;
END; the results: some of the substrings containing blanks are extracted (like "red contents", "green contents"), some are not ("food contents", "yellowish / greenish"). Also, any hits after a hit are not found by this code (e.g. "red contents, milky" will end up as "red contents", missig the "milky) we cant get to understand the logic behind this (but it seems to have to do something with blanks being a standard delimiter for SCAN) and of course, cant figure out a solution... please let me know if you need for info or examples, i am happy to share. One solution i did not yet try are the prx functions as i am completely new to these. If you say this would be the way, i am happy to learn. But hoping for an easier solution... Thanks in advance, looking forward to any hints and discussions! Best regards from Germany Irina
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