Introduction to Regular Expressions in SAS

Index

A

ASCII

about 19

code lookup tables 87–95

B

backslash (\) 13

backtracking 25–26

bell (\a) metacharacters 19

built-in call routines 49–63

built-in functions 40–49

C

CALL PRXCHANGE 50–54, 74–75, 81

CALL PRXDEBUG 59–62

CALL PRXFREE 62–63

CALL PRXNET 57–59

CALL PRXNEXT 79

CALL PRXPOSN 54–55

CALL PRXSUBSTR 56–57

CALL routine 12

capture buffers

about 39–40

extracting data with 46–47

identifying 48–49

using 45

case modifiers 23–25

case sensitivity, of metacharacters 15

character classes 21–22

cleansing data 72–76

CLOSE statement 61

compile once (//o) option 33–34

COMPRESS function 71

context-specific algorithm development 55

control (\cA-\cZ) metacharacters 20

D

data

cleansing 72–76

extracting with capture buffers 46–47

redacting sensitive 51–52 ...