Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:35:39 -0400
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From:         Nathaniel Wooding <nathaniel.wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is there a function called "indext" in SAS 9.1.3?
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Art T. sent me a note offline that tested IndexT and IndexC and this test showed that they are not identical. However, based on the code below, it appears that IndexT is an alias for Index since they look for the occurance of a complete string and not the occurance of one of a group of characters.


data test;
     str="SAS function";
       t  = indext( str , 'ufnc');
       c  = indexc( str , 'ufnc');
         I  = index ( str , 'ufnc');
         t1 = indext( str , 'SAS' );
         c1 = indexc( str , 'SAS' );
         I1 = index ( str , 'SAS' );
run;

proc print;run;proc print;
run;

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pobel
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:48 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Is there a function called "indext" in SAS 9.1.3?

Hi, everyone

Please take a look at the following DATA step:

data _null_;
     str="SAS function";
     if indext(str,'SAS') then put "This function works in 9.1.3!";
run;

Here is the log information:

This function works in 9.1.3!
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds


There is no ERROR or WARNING message, it seems that the function
'indext' does the same as function 'index'. But I cant find this
function in SAS help. So I wonder does this function really exist?

Any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks!


Pobel
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