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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis
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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

by Harish Gulati
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
346 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Find

Another powerful function to help us search strings is the Find function. The Find function searches strings for the first occurrence of the specified substring and returns the position of that substring. If the substring is not found in string, Find returns a value of 0.

If startpos is not specified, Find starts the search at the beginning of the string and searches the string from left to right. If startpos is specified, the absolute value of startpos determines the position at which to start the search. The sign of startpos determines the direction of the search. The Find function and the Index function both search for substrings of characters in a character string. However, the Index function does not have the modifiers, nor the ...

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