When looking for data contained in a character string of 150
bytes, which function is the best to locate that data: scan,
index, or indexc?

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When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / ganesh

Scan function the best for locating the particular word
specified in a argument,scan function default length is
200bytes.


data k;
r='ganesh kumar';
u=scan(r,2);
proc print;
run;

result: kumar

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When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / prr

Hi Friends,
actually I can't able to understand the question.
please repeat again in a understandable way.

scan: it returns Nth word from character observation.

index: it return starting position of the character from
character observation.

index C: it returns starting position of any character from
character observation.

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 0 No

When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / mohan reddy

INDEX IS TEH BEST FUNCTION

Is This Answer Correct ?    6 Yes 4 No

When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / rinky

The questions is to locate and not to extract any
particular word from a string of 150 bytes. SO, according
to me INDEX is the best.

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When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / jothi sankar

INDEX is best one. Is for getting location of mentioned
data.

Eg:
str1 = 'Hi i am fine here. how are u there ? .....';
str2 = index(str1,'how'); --> str2 = 20



SCAN is to get a substring upto mentioned character

INDEXC to locate only for mentioned one or more single
character

Is This Answer Correct ?    5 Yes 5 No

When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / yaga

I think Index is the best option to locate the word
beacause SCAN is SAS function to extract the particular
word positioned in nth place. for ex: 2 word from the string

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When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to l..

Answer / surendra

INDEX is the best function

Is This Answer Correct ?    4 Yes 5 No

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