I'm sure that this is a no-brainer for everyone else on the list, but I need to know if SAS has a wildcard character which can be used in the middle of something.

I am running a proc data sets to delete some files:

proc data sets lib=pcdat memtype=data nolist; delete test:_s; run; quit;

What I want to delete are all data sets starting with 'test' and ending with '_s' (test1_s, test2_s ...). What I am actually deleting with this code are all data sets starting with 'test', regardless of what follows, and then I get a note telling me that the data set _s appears on the delete statement but doesn't exist in the library. So obviously, the procedure is treating test: as all data sets starting with 'test' and _s as a completely new data set.

So does SAS have a way of putting a wildcard in the middle of a data set or variable name?

Sarah

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