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ANYALNUM |
searches a character string for an alphanumeric character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYALPHA |
searches a character string for an alphabetic character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYCNTRL |
searches a character string for a control character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYDIGIT |
searches a character string for a digit and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYFIRST |
searches a character string for a character that is valid as the first character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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ANYGRAPH |
searches a character string for a graphical character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYLOWER |
searches a character string for a lowercase letter and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYNAME |
searches a character string for a character that is valid in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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ANYPRINT |
searches a character string for a printable character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYPUNCT |
searches a character string for a punctuation character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYSPACE |
searches a character string for a white-space character (blank, horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed) and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYUPPER |
searches a character string for an uppercase letter and returns the first position at which it is found |
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ANYXDIGIT |
searches a character string for a hexadecimal character that represents a digit and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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returns one character in the ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence |
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CAT |
concatenates character strings without removing leading or trailing blanks |
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CATQ |
concatenates character or numeric values by using a delimiter to separate items and by adding quotation marks to strings that contain the delimiter |
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CATS |
concatenates character strings and removes leading and trailing blanks |
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CALL CATS |
concatenates character strings and removes leading and trailing blanks |
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CATT |
concatenates character strings and removes trailing blanks |
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CALL CATT |
concatenates character strings and removes trailing blanks |
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CATX |
concatenates character strings, removes leading and trailing blanks, and inserts separators |
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CALL CATX |
concatenates character strings, removes leading and trailing blanks, and inserts separators |
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CHOOSEC |
returns a character value that represents the results of choosing from a list of arguments |
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CHOOSEN |
returns a numeric value that represents the results of choosing from a list of arguments |
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COLLATE |
returns an ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence character string |
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COMPARE |
returns the position of the left-most character by which two strings differ, or returns 0 if there is no difference |
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COMPBL |
removes multiple blanks from a character string |
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CALL COMPCOST |
sets the costs of operations for later use by the COMPGED function |
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COMPGED |
compares two strings by computing the generalized edit distance |
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COMPLEV |
compares two strings by computing the Levenshtein edit distance |
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COMPRESS |
removes specific characters from a character string |
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COUNT |
counts the number of times that a specific substring of characters appears within a character string that you specify |
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COUNTC |
counts the number of specific characters that either appear or do not appear within a character string that you specify |
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COUNTW |
counts the number of words in a character expression |
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FIND |
searches for a specific substring of characters within a character string that you specify |
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FINDC |
searches for specific characters that either appear or do not appear within a character string that you specify |
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FINDW |
returns the character position of a word in a string, or returns the number of the word in a string |
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FIRST |
returns the first character in a character string |
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IFC |
returns a character value that matches an expression |
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IFN |
returns a numeric value that matches an expression |
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INDEX |
searches a character expression for a string of characters |
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INDEXC |
searches a character expression for specific characters |
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INDEXW |
searches a character expression for a specified string as a word |
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INPUTC |
applies a character informat at run time |
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INPUTN |
applies a numeric informat at run time |
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LEFT |
left aligns a character expression |
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returns the length of a character string |
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LENGTHC |
returns the length of a character string, including trailing blanks |
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LENGTHM |
returns the amount of memory (in bytes) that is allocated for a character string |
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LENGTHN |
returns the length of a nonblank character string, excluding trailing blanks, and returns 0 for a blank character string |
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LOWCASE |
converts all letters in an argument to lowercase |
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CALL MISSING |
assigns a missing value to the specified character or numeric variable |
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NLITERAL |
converts a character string that you specify to a SAS name literal (N-literal) |
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NOTALNUM |
searches a character string for a nonalphanumeric character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTALPHA |
searches a character string for a nonalphabetic character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTCNTRL |
searches a character string for a character that is not a control character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTDIGIT |
searches a character string for any character that is not a digit and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NOTFIRST |
searches a character string for an invalid first character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NOTGRAPH |
searches a character string for a nongraphical character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTLOWER |
searches a character string for a character that is not a lowercase letter and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NOTNAME |
searches a character string for an invalid character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NOTPRINT |
searches a character string for a nonprintable character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTPUNCT |
searches a character string for a character that is not a punctuation character and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTSPACE |
searches a character string for a character that is not a white-space character (blank, horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed) and returns the first position at which it is found |
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NOTUPPER |
searches a character string for a character that is not an uppercase letter and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NOTXDIGIT |
searches a character string for a character that is not a hexadecimal digit and returns the first position at which that character is found |
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NVALID |
checks a character string for validity for use as a SAS variable name in a SAS statement |
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PROPCASE |
converts all words in an argument to proper case |
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PUTC |
applies a character format at run time |
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PUTN |
applies a numeric format at run time |
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repeats a character expression |
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REVERSE |
reverses a character expression |
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RIGHT |
right aligns a character expression |
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SCAN |
selects a given word from a character expression |
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CALL SCAN |
returns the position and length of a given word from a character expression |
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ROUNDEX |
encodes a string to facilitate searching |
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SPEDIS |
determines the likelihood of two words matching, expressed as the asymmetric spelling distance between the two words |
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STRIP |
returns a character string with all leading and trailing blanks removed |
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SUBPAD |
returns a substring that has specified length and is padded with blanks, if necessary |
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SUBSTRN |
returns a substring, allowing a result with a length of zero |
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extracts substrings of character expressions |
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TRANSLATE |
replaces specific characters in a character expression |
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TRANSTRN |
replaces or removes all occurrences of a substring in a character string |
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TRANWRD |
replaces or removes all occurrences of a word in a character string |
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TRIM |
removes trailing blanks from character expressions and returns one blank if the expression is missing |
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TRIMN |
removes trailing blanks from character expressions and returns a null string (zero blanks) if the expression is missing |
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UPCASE |
converts all letters in an argument to uppercase |
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UUIDGEN |
returns the short or binary form of a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) |
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VERIFY |
returns the position of the first character that is unique to an |
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WHICHC |
searches for a character value that is equal to the first argument, and returns the index of the first matching value |
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WHICHN |
searches for a numeric value that is equal to the first argument, and returns the index of the first matching value |