Some Fun with SAS and Perl Regular Expressions

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This post assumes you have a little understanding of how regular expressions work and specifically how SAS implements regular expressions. I recently did something like this and thought it would be good to share. Suppose you have a program that searches through a big text field for a specific word. That’s pretty easy to code and you can even get away with just using a simple indexW() function.

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