Date:         Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:54:19 -0500
Reply-To:     Bernard Tremblay <bernard@CAPITALE.QC.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Bernard Tremblay <bernard@CAPITALE.QC.CA>
Subject:      Find  the word spflog in a text string.
Comments: To: gtiedens@njcmail.ups.com

Hi,
 
        Use the index function:
 
                i=index(txt,'spflog');
 
        It give the the position of spflog in the string
or zero if it is not found.
 
        Regards,
                Bernard Tremblay
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>>>Date:         Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:41:17 -0500
>>>From: Gary Tiedens <gtiedens@njcmail.ups.com>
>>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>   I have a dataset with over 600,000 observations in it. I am trying to
 extract
>>> only those obs. that have the word spflog in it.
>>>I tried the scan function and the result that I received were not what I
 wanted,
>>> I also tried substr. Any ideas.....
>>>
>>>
>>>xxx.xxxx.spflog.xxx
>>>xxx.spflog.xxx.xxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                                      Gary E Tiedens
>>>                                 United Parcel Service