Learning SAS by Example

Chapter 12  Working with Character Functions

12.1    Introduction

12.2    Determining the Length of a Character Value

12.3    Changing the Case of Characters

12.4    Removing Characters from Strings

12.5    Joining Two or More Strings Together

12.6    Removing Leading or Trailing Blanks

12.7    Using the COMPRESS Function to Remove Characters from a String

12.8    Searching for Characters

12.9    Searching for Individual Characters

12.10  Searching for Words in a String

12.11  Searching for Character Classes

12.12  Using the NOT Functions for Data Cleaning

12.13  Describing a Real Blockbuster Data Cleaning Function

12.14  Extracting Part of a String

12.15  Dividing Strings into Words

12.16  Comparing Strings

12.17  Performing a Fuzzy Match ...