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Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:58:05 -0400
Reply-To:   Ben <benpub7@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Ben <benpub7@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:   Re: Scanning the string

Your methods are great, but what if the case is a little bit complcated like following:

the demension of array is going to be varied from 2 to 50.

************************; data _null_; infile datalines ...;

datalines; aa*bb**dd*ee****ii a*b ;;;;

***********************;

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:19:56 -0400, Ben <benpub7@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>data _null_; >STR='aa*bb**dd*ee****ii"; > >put s1= s2= s3= s4= s5= s6= s7= s8= s9= s10=; >run; > >*the desired results; > >s1='aa' s2='bb' s3='' s4='dd' s5='ee' s6='' s7='' s8='' s9='' s10='ii' > >**instead of; >s1='aa' s2='bb' s3='dd' s4='ee' s5='ii' > >Thanks > >ben


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