Jedi SAS Tricks: Pattern Search in DS2

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Finding a pattern like a phone number or national ID number embedded in text can be difficult and time consuming. The traditional DATA step has a family of functions (collectively referred to as PRX functions) that allow using Perl regular expressions in your SAS programs to make pattern search easier. […]

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