Deleting a substring from a SAS string
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to delete a substring from a character string - one of the common character data manipulation tasks.
Tag: character data
Inserting a substring into a SAS string
SAS' Leonid Batkhan demonstrates a common character data manipulation task of inserting a substring into a character string.
How to perform a fuzzy match using SAS functions
“Here’s Johnny!!!” and well sometimes John and sometimes Jonathan and sometimes Jon. In the real world, you sometimes need to make matching character strings more flexible. This is especially common when merging data sets. Variables, especially names, are not always exactly the same in all sources of your data. When