Date:         Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:40:23 -0800
Reply-To:     "Tarbash Patel a.k.a. Babu" <epidemiologist@SCIENTIST.COM>
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From:         "Tarbash Patel a.k.a. Babu" <epidemiologist@SCIENTIST.COM>
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Subject:      Re: tab character as delimiter
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slefkowit@cas.org (Sanford Lefkowitz) wrote in message news:<8f48288f.0403050743.1619b0bf@posting.google.com>...
> In the SCAN function (to find a field in  long string), the third
> paramater is the delimiter.
> How do I specify the tab character to be a delimiter?
>
> TIA
> Sanford

Sanford,

Do this

data Suganshu;
        set DataThatContainsTabs;
        Tab1 = scan(VariableThatContainsTabs,1,"09"x);
run;

"09"x is TAB

Thank you,

Babu...

I love Suganshu!!!