From the course: SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1

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Using SAS functions on character data

Using SAS functions on character data - SAS Tutorial

From the course: SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1

Using SAS functions on character data

- [Instructor] Previously I was just creating and manipulating numeric data. Let's move on now to manipulating some character values. In here I'm going to be using some built in functions like substring, length, prop case, scan and so forth and again I'm going to be using these all in a data step. So here I've listed the function and I've just cherry picked these functions. These are some of my favorite from the online doc page, but there are a ton of built in functions that you can use and in just a few minutes I'll actually show you how to get to these functions on the doc page and I've also provided the description here in the table, but this is really more for a reference. Let's actually look at using these functions. The substring function allows us to extract a certain part of a string. So imagine I'm working with a data table and one of my variables is a count code. I want to create a new variable called organization code and I just want to pull out the last character of the…

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