Research Triangle will host SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG) 2012 conference (October 14-16, Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Durham, NC; back to the home of SAS!). It will be my first regional SAS user conference and I will have a talk on SAS Perl Regular Expression(PRX), in the morning of next Monday, Oct 15. SAS PRX is […]
Tag: Regex
SAS multiple character and varying length Delimiters
I’ve solved a problem I had in my previous post “Strip Characters From Between Two Delimiters”. At work I was given a strangely formatted data file – example.
I needed to separate out the data chunks to work with it. While my first solution…
Strip Characters From Between Two Delimiters
I obviously need more practice using SAS. Sometimes I can figure stuff out, other times I feel like a junior programmer. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to extract text between two multi-character delimiters.
Here is an exampl…