Solved: substr function - SAS Support Communities
Jan 29, 2021 · The normal substr function is straight forward. For example , substr(var,2,6) means substract from the 2nd place to the 6th place of var. Today I saw someone write a length function nested in substr function, do any of you know what does it mean? Substract from which place to which place? SUBSTR(VAR,LENGTH(VAR)-4,5) Thank you, Runrunbunny
Extract a subset of a numerical variable - SAS Communities
Nov 29, 2019 · SUBSTR() works on character strings. But SAS will happily convert your number 201,910 into a character string for you. The problem is it does that using the BEST12. format which will right align the result. So since your value only needs 6 digits the first 6 characters are all spaces. Convert your number to a character string.
Solved: cannot use substr - SAS Support Communities
Mar 17, 2022 · Hello I have a two variables (v1 and v2) of 3 digits each. v2 has a charterer format (per the original dataset). I'm trying to say if the 3rd digit of var1 equal to the (3rd digit of var2)+1 then set the value of a variable sem to 1. I tried to use substr for this task but it …
USING SUBSTR AND FIND FUNCTION TOGETHER - SAS …
Oct 11, 2017 · I am new at Enterprise Guide and need some help. I am specifically supposed to use the FIND function and the SUBSTR to pull out only the first percentage in a character string. It looks like this: The column is Recipients Then in the column it …
Use of array and substr - SAS Communities
Nov 6, 2017 · Hi guys!! Need your help on understanding the usage of an array with substring for the above codes. The above screenshot was taken from a video where I am doing some self-learning for SAS programming. The first data step created two strings: "abcdefghij" and "klmnopqrst"; while the second data st...
Solved: using array and substr - SAS Support Communities
Jul 4, 2016 · Hi, I have the following database; I want to create the following code: if substr for any of the four variables (dx1-dx4) starts with 250** (first three codes 250) then db=1, else db=0; output would be: 1 250 223 224 444 5/5/2009 1 1 555 666 120 2501 5/6/2008 1 2 120 666 .
Extracting words from a string after a specific character - SAS …
Feb 6, 2019 · Hi, I have a variable called "comment" that contains a string of words that are separated by '~' example: comment text text text text ~ text text text text text text text ~ text text text ~text text I would like to extract the text after the …
Proc SQL Substring of a numeric variable - SAS Communities
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convert date type to character and use substr - SAS Communities
Feb 27, 2019 · Hi there, I am currently encountering a problem, I have an attribute date, the variable is a date type and the format is like 01MAY2018. I want to use substr to extract only the month ie.May for this attribute for future analysis; however, sas told me that I need to convert data type first, but I ...
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