Date:         Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:41:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: using Perl regex to validate values in SAS 9.1
Comments: To: "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:27:00 -0700, David L. Cassell
<cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV> replied in part to Venky Chakravarthy's
question:
>> Do we really need Perl Regex?
>
>No.  We don't.

That is quite a concession from a Perl Bigot :-).

>
>>                                Shouldn't the following humble data
>step, not
>> achieve the same results?
>
>Yes.  It should.
>
>> data wrongrecords ;
>>    set staff ;
>>    if missing(phone1) or missing(phone2) then delete ;
>>    if (input(phone1,??12.)=.) or (input(phone2,??12.)=.) then output ;
>> run ;
>
>Yep.
>
>Or else VERIFY() or COMPRESS() could be used to do the validation.
>As has been suggested in prior variants of this thread.

Okay, I will admit that I did not read all the replies having rejoined the
list in a contributory mode only days ago. I now see that one notable
poster has also suggested a character function. However, the subject line
screams "... Perl regex ...."

Venky

>
>David
>--
>David Cassell, CSC
>Cassell.David@epa.gov
>Senior computing specialist
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